Jeremy Bowen

The leadership has always been factionalized, but on things like the survival of the regime, they are not.

As long as they have people who are prepared to go into the streets and shoot dead their fellow Iranians on behalf of the regime...

They are not a dying regime and they will continue to fight, however weakened they've been by circumstances in the last couple of years.

It's going to have painted wall plaster.

It's going to have all sorts of fancy decorations around it.

Jos katsotaan, miten Donald Trump liittyy, kun hän tuli takaisin toiselle vuoteen, niin hänen ihmisilleen käytettävä kertomus on, että he olivat järjestämättömiä. Toisin sanoen, siellä oli vain tämä yllättävän yllättäminen aktiivisuudesta, lopettamista yliopistoja, virtaamista ihmisiä, rajoittamista budjettia ja niin edelleen.

I think at the moment we're seeing not just a hemispheric, but a global version of that. And he's moving so quickly that it's causing consternation, I think, not just among adversaries, but among allies as well. And that's because they can't predict which way he's going. Is it just good judgment? Is it arrogance? Is it hubris, overconfidence before a disaster? We've talked about a new world order before, but do you feel like this is a new, new world order?

What we're seeing now is really the starkest exposition, if you like, of the way that Donald Trump and his people regard power and the way that power is used and the way that America can use it. And I think there are some constants in the way that they behave, even though it's super unpredictable. He believes strongly that America can use power with impunity.

Nyt se, että Amerikassa käyttää voimaa tällaisissa hetkissä, ja ajattelen erityisesti 9.11-vaikutuksista 2001, kun al-Qaeda vaikuttaa Amerikkaan. Se loppui todella pahasti amerikkalaisille. Silloin oli se mukaan, että me voimme tehdä paljon ja katsotaan, kuinka vahvasti olemme. Se oli käsitellyt eri tavalla. He uskaltavat yhdistelmiä, mutta seuraukset Irakissa ja Afganistanissa olivat ongelmia, katastrofeja ja muut.

So he thinks though it's going to be different because he has great faith in the power of his will backed up by raw American power and he's surrounded by people who agree with him and keep telling him he's right. I just wonder as China and Russia, how will they be viewing these events? Chinese diplomats I think did about the last meeting with the former Venezuelan president before the Americans went in just a matter of hours beforehand. They were in his palace and he was joking with them dressed in a

Hyvän suunnan, mutta eivät se ole se, mitä hänellä on nyt olemassa. Ja tänään amerikkalaisen vahvistelijan tankki oli, russit sanoivat, jatkuvasti, mutta se oli russin vahvistelija. Nyt, mielenkiintoisesti, kun kainsalaiset vahvistelivat, mitä he mielestäni oikeasti arvioivat, että se oli vahvistelijan vahvistelijan vahvistelijan vahvistelijan vahvistelijan vahvistelijan.

I think it's because both those big countries are eyeing Trump and they're thinking, hmm, I wonder what he's up to. Not least because if he believes there can be an American empire, then maybe he'll agree that there can be a Chinese empire in Asia. And maybe he'll agree with Russia that actually they deserve to have Ukraine.

and they certainly deserve to have all of the territory that they're claiming in the formulations of possible ceasefire agreements. So I think they are probably now standing back. There are smart, experienced people in Moscow and in Beijing, and they are thinking, what's in this for us? BBC International editor Jeremy Bowen. Still to come in the Global News Podcast...

First of all, I think he feels among friends when he comes to Paris, when he speaks to European leaders. They've been lighting up the Eiffel Tower in the colours of the Ukrainian national flag, yellow and blue. Clear, deliberate gesture to contrast with the verbal dressing down he got when he was in Washington. from President Trump and from his Vice President, J.D. Vance.

First of all, I think he feels among friends when he comes to Paris, when he speaks to European leaders. They've been lighting up the Eiffel Tower in the colours of the Ukrainian national flag, yellow and blue. Clear, deliberate gesture to contrast with the verbal dressing down he got when he was in Washington. from President Trump and from his Vice President, J.D. Vance.

Now, in this panel discussion I had with President Zelensky, we covered the whole gamut of the things which will be talked about here in Paris tomorrow at a European summit, the so-called Coalition of the Willing, trying to work out what it is they can do. And so one question I asked President Zelensky was about the...

Now, in this panel discussion I had with President Zelensky, we covered the whole gamut of the things which will be talked about here in Paris tomorrow at a European summit, the so-called Coalition of the Willing, trying to work out what it is they can do. And so one question I asked President Zelensky was about the...

Steve Witkoff, der Anwalt von Präsident Trump, gab ein sehr illuminierendes Interview am letzten Tag. Und es scheint sehr stark zu suggerieren, dass... The Americans don't take seriously the efforts that the British and the French are doing to try to put together a force to give you some security guarantees.

Steve Witkoff, der Anwalt von Präsident Trump, gab ein sehr illuminierendes Interview am letzten Tag. Und es scheint sehr stark zu suggerieren, dass... The Americans don't take seriously the efforts that the British and the French are doing to try to put together a force to give you some security guarantees.

Witkopf said, he ridiculed it, he said it was a posture, it was a pose, there was simplistic desire to sound like Winston Churchill. But bearing in mind the realities of European military weakness compared to the US, actually, do you think he's right?