CrossTalk
'CrossTalk' is RT's flagship program. This TV debate experience presents hot-topic discussions on politics, business, newsmakers, global trends, present-day conflicts, and dangers and challenges facing our world. Host Peter Lavelle poses hard, straightforward questions to his guests, and demands concrete answers in response. Peter's guests are politicians, journalists, scientists and decision-makers of all sorts – anyone who influences the decisions changing our world or plays a key role in forming public opinion.
CrossTalk Bullhorns: Bombs-away-Biden
The US escalates to de-escalate, goes to war to avoid war. In the meantime, European leaders bluster about the need to stop Putin, while protests mount. CrossTalking with George Szamuely and Martin Jay.
CrossTalk: Biden’s blank check
As many predicted, Israel’s onslaught on Gaza is triggering a much larger Middle Eastern conflict. It appears the United States is willing to fight Israel’s regional enemies for it. This is what Joe Biden’s ‘blank check’ to Israel actually means. CrossTalking with Lionel, Muhannad Ayyash, Romana Rubeo.
CrossTalk: Avoiding defeat
NATO’s Ukraine narrative is like the passing of the seasons – ever-changing. We have witnessed ‘as long as it takes’ to today’s ‘just avoid defeat.’ The Biden administration knows victory over Russia is a dead end. Now it is satisfied with the slow destruction of Ukraine. CrossTalking with Craig Pasta Jardula, Wilmer Leon, and Dmitry Babich.
CrossTalk Bullhorns: ICJ ruling – game changer?
For all intents and purposes Israel has been indicted on the charge of genocide by the world’s highest court. Is this a game changer? Has Israel lost its long-held impunity? Also, the establishment’s lawfare campaign against Donald Trump continues. Will America’s democracy be destroyed in the process? CrossTalking, with George Szamuely and Martin Jay.
CrossTalk: The ‘Gaza shift’
Few issues have polarized the world recently like Israel’s war on Gaza. The West defends Israel’s settler-colonial project. The rest of the world looks on in anger and disgust. What we are witnessing is the end of the West’s 500 years of global hegemony. It has lost moral authority. CrossTalking with Ali Rizk, Ed Martin, and Lionel.
CrossTalk: Leadership decline
It would seem Israel’s war in Gaza is changing everything. Not least the West’s claim to moral leadership in the world. The so-called ‘rules-based order’ has been shown to be a complete fraud. When there is a leadership vacuum, others will fill it. CrossTalking with Garland Nixon, Margaret Kimberley, and Matthew Ehret.