Football began to flourish here at the turn of the 20th century, not as a fun diversion for kids, but to aid a U.S. foreign policy obsessed with dreams of a global empire.

The US has decided that providing aid to Israel is just a fixture in its foreign policy.

And I don't think we should conduct foreign policy in our bathrobe at 5:00 in the morning.

Just to follow up on my colleague's question from Russia saying that your foreign policy is largely in line with their vision.

Walk back on some of this if President Zelensky says, sorry because that's what some people have been speculating over Or indeed if he leaves the office well, yeah, it is extraordinary to say but there was a time until quite recently when American foreign policy was based on a system of alliances where People of course America put its own interests first, but where there were also shared interests now The idea is is is Trump's view which is America first which is essentially the rest of the world is raw material for America to do deals to get richer to be more powerful and it's as you know, it's a throwback to big powers in the 19th century when they would get together the British of course were one of those and just decide things for themselves send gunboats if necessary if not send traders and merchants and Yeah, so this is a really difficult serious Crisis and it may well be the unraveling of that alliance which has lasted for so long indeed And of course, we see European leaders We saw that the weekend that meeting in London for example trying to come up with some sort of plan We've seen that offer from France as well and the UK working with them on that Is that going to have any leverage with the u.s.

This is a case where the United States government has created a policy targeting Palestinian activists and specifically Mahmoud Khalil for arrest, detention, and potential removal because the United States government disagrees with his constitutionally protected right to dissent from US foreign policy.

Just to be able to stay in office this long, and to stabilize foreign policy, and chip away at some of the economic challenges, you know, that, in itself, I think, is a lasting achievement.

There you see it on the screen CBS our partner in America reporting that in terms of sources talking to them and let's speak to Tom Bateman our State Department correspondent and Tom let me start by asking you about this breaking news we'll come to that resources deal a little later but these are the first casualties of this Trump administration for people who perhaps don't know some of the background just remind people about that whole huge controversy around the signal chat group yeah absolutely and first of all to let you know that the White House being asked about this as you would imagine at the moment saying that it won't comment on reports from anonymous sources but as you say our colleagues at CBS quoting several sources saying that Mike Waltz and Alex Wong will leave their positions today and as you say that would be a highly significant moment the first to leave their posts in any senior official position in this second Trump administration now as for Mike Waltz it's it's interesting that we've heard a lot less from him publicly he's been a lot less publicly visible over the last few weeks having gone from a position of really high visibility in the administration I mean I remember being in the room as a group of journalists interviewed him and Marco Rubio the Secretary of State in Saudi Arabia when the administration had just met the Russians the first meeting between the minister of the US administration and the Russians in quite a significant amount of time so he was at the highest profile levels of foreign policy for the administration and then we had March which was that signal chat that was set up by Mike Waltz the National Security Advisor included several high-level officials in that and others working for them and he had mistakenly included Jeffrey Goldberg the editor of the Atlantic magazine who then broke the story about how this signal chat had been set up in which Pete Hegseth the Defense Secretary shared what the administration denied was classified information but was clearly attack plans for the bombing of Houthi positions in Yemen but not only that row about classified information being used on a commercial chat application at the most senior levels of the US administration but also sort of deeply embarrassing internal discussions between the members of the administration about first of all whether they wanted to go ahead with this plan to bomb the Houthis because some members of the administration particularly J.D.

The idea on foreign policy is we all get ready to hear Nikki Haley speak this evening who focused so much of her primary campaign on foreign policy that Trump suggested to you that the U.S. may not actually have a duty to defend Taiwan that Taiwan maybe should actually pay the United States for protection.

Well, we can speak now to Hanna Szelest, who's in Odessa, also director of security programs at the Foreign Policy Council Ukrainian PRISM and editor-in-chief at Ukraine Analytica.