Valerie Sanderson

And what about the exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado's meeting with Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State? So this is the second high profile meeting Maria Corina Machado has had with the Trump administration. She spoke with President Trump himself recently and now the Secretary of State. Marco Rubio has an invested interest in the region. He's a son of Cuban immigrants. And we understand in that closed meeting, that closed door meeting, that he again kind of reassured the opposition leader that she has the US's long term backing.

Interessanttista on, että kun puhuttiin raportteihin, Miss Machalo sanoi, että Desi Rodriguez ei voinut luottaa, että ei ollut mitään uskoa hänelle, ja että hän oli yleensä tärkeä osa niin sanottuista valtionterrorismia, joita Venäjä suosittelee nyt. Joten taas hyvin lämpimästi ja emotiivisesti opetuksen ympäristöstä opetussuunnitelmasta. Mimi Swaybi.

She may be the first lady of the United States, but Melania Trump remains a bit of a mystery to most American people, making very few public appearances alongside her husband Donald. A new documentary called Melania, produced by Amazon, is being released in cinemas worldwide on Friday, promising a behind-the-scenes look at the first lady, particularly during the weeks before the presidential inauguration last year.

One country that won't be showing the film is South Africa. Its main cinema operators pulled the documentary a day before its release, citing the current climate without elaborating more on the reason. Helen Lewis, staff writer at The Atlantic, spoke to Amol Rajan about what the Trump family and Amazon are getting out of the film.

Amazon has, shall we say, burnished its relationship with the Trump White House. Obviously, that's something that Jeff Bezos has been very keen to do. The other thing he does, obviously, is owns the Washington Post, which refused to endorse Kamala Harris very notoriously at the last presidential election. So really, he is somebody who values very closely this relationship that he has with the Trump White House. So...

He've paid $40 million to make this. Most of that is reportedly gone to Melania Trump herself, plus another $35 million to market it. And, you know, she is an executive producer on this. So it's a big gift-wrapped present to the Trump White House, really.

Ja Melania Trumpista, hän on joku, joka on todella pysynyt takaisin. Luulen, että hän on haastava ensimmäinen jäsen, koska hän on lopettanut niin monia meidän ajatuksiamme Amerikan poliitikasta ja ensimmäisen jäsenen roolista. Hän ei ainoastaan tullut kampanjan kautta. Hän teki Madison Square Garden rallyin oikein lopulta, mutta hän ei edes puhunut Republican National Conventionin vuonna 2024.

Kyllä. Nämä kaksi netflix-dokumentteja, joissa on Bekkums, ovat toinen todella hyvä esimerkki tästä. Ne ovat todella valitettavaa elämää. En usko, että opetamme mitään erittäin ymmärrettävää Melania-dokumentteista. Opetamme, mitä hän haluaa kertoa, mitä hän haluaa esittää, mitä hän tuntee, mitä hän kertoo elämäänsä.

Yeah, it's extraordinary really how little she has engaged in publicity. Notoriously she used to talk to her parents, who lived in the White House with her in the first term, and her son Barron in Slovenia, and sort of locked Donald Trump out. Even in the trailer for the film, all you see her is saying a couple of slightly icy things, and then Trump phoning her when she's in their New York apartment to ask if she's watched something, and she says, no, I'll watch it on television later. There's a kind of...

There's a kind of like lack of being botheredness about it, which means that people have had to overread enormously from the few things that they do have. So one of her causes, a traditional first lady cause, has been children. She went to visit victims of the Trump regime's family separation policy at the border, splitting up immigrant children from their parents. And she did that wearing a jacket on the back said almost unbelievably, I don't really care, do you?

Helen Lewis from the Atlantic on Melania Trump.

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This edition of the Global News Podcast was mixed by Martin Baker. The producers were Alice Adderley and Chantal Hartl. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Valerie Sanderson. Till next time. Bye bye.

Kun maailma on täynnä hälyä, koti kaipaa tikkurilla mutea. Mute on syvä mattasisustusmaali. Se luo kauniin sametinpehmeän mattapinnan, joka vaimentaa visuaalista hälyä. Tikkurilla mute. Maalaa rauhallisuus kotiisi.

It would be fair to say that amongst America's European allies, he is the leader of what might be described as the softly, softly approach, Valerie, that let's take it diplomatically, let's not turn the heat up any higher. But it is difficult domestically here in the UK because, of course, there are plenty of politicians and, of course, plenty of ordinary voters who think, come on, Zakir, tell Donald Trump what you really think, that this is all completely unfair.

Unacceptable, in other words, have a sort of love actually moment, that film where the British prime minister takes it to a fictional American president. That isn't going to happen. And he repeated the argument he's made really ever since President Trump's inauguration, which is, look, you know, whatever, however angry you might feel about stuff, the relationship between the US and the UK is so important for us in terms of our security and economics. You have to keep talking.

Yeah, but what happens if Mr. Trump isn't up for calm discussions? But that is the great question, Valerie. And it was put to him after his statement in Downing Street by several of my colleagues. And he refuses to countenance that, saying that he believes that there will be a diplomatic solution that he doesn't think.

that this will come in any way to sort of military action or anything remotely like it. But that is the key question. I mean, what does happen if this talking and if this diplomacy doesn't work? I mean, I think that would be a crisis of absolutely existential proportions for the West.

The dilemma here is if they don't do anything, they can look weak and that may embolden Mr. Trump even further over Greenland. If they go too far, then there's the risk of a trade war with the US, their biggest partner. President Macron of France, he says the EU really needs to be tough at this moment. He's talked about...

Yhteistyössä on käytetty EU-yhteyden bazooka, kuten se on kuitenkin sanottu. Tämä olisi yleensä yhdistelmätarifteja. Se oli yleensä yhdistelmä, jota he suunnittelivat, jota he suunnittelivat, jota he suunnittelivat.