first so going to start right away russia's u.n. delegation is dealing with several pressing issues right now namely the north korean nuclear crisis with a country reporting and conducted the hydrogen bomb tests now at the latest security council session and you said that a military solution to the crisis is impossible but do you seriously think any calls for a military solution go beyond emotions or populism i mean does anyone seriously want war. hello so fickle nice to be with you i hope they have not we had the next throw of the security council meeting on the recent test and everybody everybody strongly condemned that it was indeed a flagrant violation of all previous security council resolutions almost good here including the latest on the twenty three seventy one you know nobody i believe once military solution everybody won once the crisis but debate is all peacefully but the problem is that recipes for to differ. some countries some ground that is like the united states france japan u.k. south korea and others say we need to

russia has a 1165, give or take, border with ukraine. on the other side of thousands of russian troops ensconced in military bases. think about this, because we need to think carefully before we take the first step. why would the reaction of vladimir putin, because he has reacted as such on prior occasions, in 2014-2015. why would it not be to scale up what he can do very easily, which is re-enforce the separatists. now then there's a quandary. what will the united states do having put made in the usa weapons in the hands of ukrainians. one is to say we can't allow them to fall because it's just been said that this is an issue of paramount importance. so we scale up and develop, deliver more weapons. noting geography. that's one possibility. the second is to enter in some direct way ourselves. although they said no american boots on the ground because they know that would be a nonstarter if they didn't say that. the third possibility is to back down. i would submit to you that none of those possibilities, spael s especially the last one,

but not everyone here feeds russia. less than three hours drive from talon is the old fortress town of navarre on the russian border. it's just two hours drive from here to russia's second city's pages but. ninety percent of novice residents big russian most like bloody major dark off feel russian that they're risky cordelia starts got a commercial growth could work better but on the. look at the record shows you tell a story new york about more than a quarter of the stern is population hotels from russia as in crimea many of their families moved across in soviet times when they were the same country now the us and its neighbor yvonne bridge were effectively the same town family and friends across a heavily patrolled border. yes still some use it was done through school so this was also used to get out and. bring. despite find himself on the a stony inside blood a major dark golf remains proud of his heritage. yet twice a week he reverses with a russian folk group in novice castle a symbol of a long history of conflict.

are still part of russia. this is an old swedish finnish town of baber a soviet union invaded in one thousand thirty nine and finally and next this part of them in nineteen forty four. russia remains the largest country on earth even they only the ten most populous. it's still extremely diverse with about one hundred languages spoken by some hundred fifty catholicity. the former soviet republics are now independent states. yet russia still holds sway economically and culturally in some parts of the former empire bordering on the russian federation. this is the famous moscow i saw out celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of the russian federation when the soviet union collapsed and russia's new life again. the mood is cheerful no sense of crisis in the air and these are average people representative of the great majority of the multi ethnic russian life. god given gift. cards and that we have. the. top five yet that they count getting to have like. that that. we're proud that we make others fear us in a son

the same thing will be true with russia. we have been in unity with europe on russia. we now believe we need to take it to the next plateau. your responsibility will be to meet with our european partners to maintain that unity. we need to build resiliency in our democratic institutions across europe. russia's agrgression is not jus as the united states. we welcome working with the european partners to strengthen that resiliency. another hat i wear as the ranking democratic on oscc helsinki commission. many challenges in addition to russia. you've got brexit, you've got turkey and how we're dealing with turkey. you have the migration issues, you have unity against isil, concerns of erosion in the democratic process in some of our european countries that are members of eu and nato. so you have a full plate, and we look forward to that discussion and thank you for your willingness to be here and take on this responsibility. >> governor, we thank you so much for being here. i want to join in with senator cardin in thank youing ying you many years of service here in our cou

wasn't always had i think russia is just as concerned about islamist terrorism as we are and russia like us is concerned about the proliferation of nuclear weapons if north korea continues down this path and other small countries follow we will want the same thing as russia arms control nucular disarmament and measures to ensure peace establish trust and defeat islamist terrorism our countries have plenty of shared interests. saudi arabia has suspended all dialogue with cattle explain why after the break. but now china has taken the bold step here the twenty first century and after they've built our economy on the backs of all american jobs all the american jobs were to china and they created a middle class out of church members like other years ago fifty years ago thirty years ago before the world trade organization they were accepted into the average you know chinese person was surviving on dirt like they were nation eighty but now they're all for the middle class but point mining because. as long as you run support still the intel international community say to run this is not accepta

than it will to russia i think what really. present puts it on the russian or indeed are saying is we can escalate the stakes if you do as well we can also play hardball do you want us to so really it's a question being posed all the americans unfortunately most of americans seem to want to play hardball the system is being phased out through the liberal chattering classes of believe and swallow without any evidence or claims are being made at the expense of russia within america it's the bogey states to justify the military industrial complex getting its money in so. i don't see that changing too soon. with the german election in little over two weeks many say a victory for angela merkel is a foregone conclusion but not the chancellor herself it seems many dumbing down the need isn't gentleman we hear a lot here that the german election has already been decided i'm telling you that this is simply not true the latest polls show angela merkel's party breaking away from her main rival martin schultz's social democratic party howe

russia's government denied any. i was a stone an ambassador to russia so of course the question of attribution who was behind those attacks was racist some of the russian officials even officials were stupid enough. to say themselves that they were behind those attacks or they were part of that attacks or that took place in those attacks. nature the western defense alliance is the first cyber war. it's set up a cyber defense centering talent to counter future attacks every year it stages complex cyber war games to probe for weakness. the researches help dystonia develop one of the world's most secure digital networks if russia's intention was to scare us tonia it backfired because it was so. out of the blue i mean like so and. it didn't affect our everyday life. too much one bank was down for one of us. our again so that was the maximum damage place rather than retreating from cyberspace a stunning you decided to double down and make digital development the core of its new economy. the government back doubled its st

leaders again talking harsh talking about the possibility of sanctions against russia and against china if they don't comply with the new u.n. resolution if china doesn't follow the sanctions we will put additional sanctions on them and prevent them from accessing the u.s. and international dollar system and that's quite meaningful so now we have these words from trump downplaying the u.n. resolution and many people whose hopes had really been raised for peace and diplomacy being victorious well those hopes are starting to dampen now they're starting to be some some fear that perhaps once again we are in the danger of a global conflict or some kind of war breaking out in the crisis in the korean peninsula could be once again intensifying despite what was seen as a step forward for diplomacy and international cooperation this is just another dip on the roller coaster and saying this seems every week with the war where it goes up very high than than maybe this in conciliatory talk some cooperation some diplomacy and then more threats of military force and it's really hard to know what to

although russia collusion fake news all the posturing against russia all positioning trumpets russia agent goes to show that now when it comes to anything related with the u.s. and russia relations trump is a no show he's at the equations at the generals and the wall street bankers the military industrial complex is running the show and we see where this is leading to it's leading to like victor says another cold war and it's leading very quickly what is what is the west get out of this money. it looks like a big media show i mean they could actually find some compromising evidence this is ridiculous this is a mockery it's a show ok first we have to understand that this is primarily aimed at their own domestic audience this is congress in the deep state because i don't agree that this is not coming from at least the person of trump i don't know if there's anyone left in his administration that isn't compromised at this point no one anywhere kelly maddow masters the generals are running it but they want the deep state wants to and the congress wants to worsen relations with russia thi

when russia invaded its neighbor, ukraine and took over part of it, took over create im russia preceded the invasion with a big military exercise at the edge of ukraine that gave russia an excuse to mass a bunch of troops there and mill titary equipment. after russia invaded ukraine and took crimea, the u.s. and countries responded with serious sanctions against russia. that bank that secretly met with jared kushner sanctioned. the other bank lined up to finance trump tower moscow, also sanctioned. the russian energy company trying to do an oil deal with exxonmobil that was so big putin gave exxon ceo rex tillerson the medal and thanks for doing the deal, the company is sanctioned which skewed up the big deal with exxon. the sanctions on russia are really, really big pain and getting rid of them is a huge priority for russia. in january, the personal lawyer, long-time executive with the trump organization took a meeting in a new york lobby in new york city with a few different people including a proputin politician from ukraine and the result of that meeting in new york was a written pr

in the western media in one for example of russia and. the russian aviation destroyed their minister of war or the so-called islamic state who is none other than groom or old high level. former tajik special forces officer trained into the us who basically defected due to the isis spoils and fifteen in order to fight their asses regime and who could please don't call but you rush really. georgian descent who also fought against russians band who volunteers police in the glorious ranks of the islamic state after wards fighting terrible on a prediction here ok a few years when the syrian war the bloody syrian civil war will go but you know it will be part of history and the people there will live in peace. the official american way of framing historically framing this war would be that it was the united states that defeated ace it was the united states that defeated noosa it was the united states that conducted the peace negotiations and then we beat russia and maybe some other countries scoped out but not so much that's how it's not so the

russia russia but what about all the foreign elections the united states has interfered in i don't want to keep talking about the elections like everybody else on mainstream media but i want to do what you said and address the hypocrisy here between one hundred forty six and two thousand the united states has committed electoral misconduct and at least eighty one elections across forty five countries and that's twenty two percent of the world according to researchers at carnegie mellon university this includes elections in iran guatemala yugoslavia and she lay to name a few and it does not include any attempts for coups or regime change which would bring that number even higher now this study shows that most of america's meddling occurred during the cold war while the united states was trying to contain soviet influence but even after the collapse of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred one the us has continued its electoral misconduct in fact since two thousand the us has attempted to sway elections in ukraine kenya lebanon afghanistan and more and while the united states the

russia russia but what about all the foreign elections the united states has interfered in i don't want to keep talking about the elections like everybody else on mainstream media but i want to do what you said and address the hypocrisy here between nine hundred forty six and two thousand the united states has committed electoral misconduct and at least eighty one elections across forty five countries and that's twenty two percent of the world according to researchers at carnegie mellon university this includes elections in iran guatemala yugoslavia and she lay to name a few and it does not include any attempts for coups or regime change which would bring that number even higher now this study shows that most of america's meddling occurred during the cold war while the united states was trying to contain soviet influence but even after the collapse of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred one the us has continued its electoral misconduct in fact since two thousand the us has attempted to sway elections in ukraine kenya lebanon afghanistan and more and while the united states the

russia can expect to be hacked. they used a new smartphone to browse for information about the sochi olympics almost immediately we were hacked that was two years before the western world started blaming everything on the washington hacking menace so next year what a great idea big bosses go on our guys know what it takes to win elections abroad why not win or help when the football world cup now. round for the new. social media facebook twitter and of course our web site but i'll be back at the top of the alice so don't go away. but you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go on to be the first this is what before three of the people that i'm interested in the water. level was dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. to do so for the tell you that every gossip and public. off of advertising tell you on the pool and buy their products. that we all. want. syria paradoxical the. compact is in was

at the same time, nato does not seek confrontation with russia. russia is our neighbor. we don't want a new cold war oh. we strive for a more constructive relationship with russia. i have seen that it is possible to talk to russia, to work with russia but that has to be based on a predictable, strong approach. if we have the strength in nato, then we are able to engage in political dialogue and diffuse tensions between nato and russia. charlie: nothing seems to concern president putin more than nato on his border, the idea of ukraine or georgia being a member of nato is a subject which he becomes passionate against. mr. stoltenberg: yes, but at the same time, it is an absolute principle and right of every nation to decide its own future. russia was also against the baltic countries joining nato. but the baltic countries decided through the democratic process they wanted to become members of nato, and became members of nato. when it comes to georgia and ukraine, it is up to georgia and ukraine to decide their own path. and in the end it is a decision by the 29 nato allies

the remains of russia's most wanted terrorists found by the federal security agency. killed four years ago i was behind the moscow metro bombings. islamic states on the brink in syria we've got exclusive footage from where the terrorists have been pushed back across the euphrates river. taken fifty thousand more. after the previous two year long. iraq increase. in kurdistan are overwhelmingly for independence. good evening welcome you're watching r.t. international start this hour with breaking news to you because nato has admitted an air strike in afghanistan has resulted in civilian casualties a u.s. strike was called to suppress a terrorist attack on kabul airport on wednesday. the afghan crisis response unit responded quickly to confront the attackers and the assault u.s. forces acting in support conducted an air strike tragically one of the missiles malfunctioned causing several casualties or several mortar rounds struck kabul international airport just hours after the u.s. defense secretary and nato secretary general arrived in the afghan capital both the taliba

russia seems to be getting special attention. pointed out the amendment is part of the national defense authorization act but the bombshell plan is very deep inside the multi-page document the part about russia's summarized in just a few lines between details on funding of the us military sector experts told us all this is no coincidence. the defense bill often has thing stuck in it have nothing to do with the fence it's like that's how congress gets things done that they wouldn't be able to just do. as a freestanding bill because it would be too ridiculous or it would have too much opposition so they stick it in the defense bell of figuring that the whole damn thing will get passed to members of congress don't read the bills and so. but it really could slip past most of the members completely. presumably they have staff people that read it better but they don't read it in obsession on capitol hill and in the mainstream media with with r t because our kids effective in our two years watched but also in this is very important beca

officials are now conducting searches of russia as the diplomatic in san francisco and washington was shut down on the state department's orders on the move calling it a clear violation of international. samples you need to match . the russian. having been expecting so she's going to be doing. counterterrorism chief is revealed britain has the highest number of islamist extremists in all of europe. was here not why i. remember we all like yeah we'll black people right. the police lieutenant in the united states has been fired after that dash cam video showed him assuring a woman during a traffic stop that police only killed people. welcome to past midnight here in the russian capital and your international american security service is now carrying out searches of russia's diplomatic properties in the u.s. from the state department the russian foreign ministry has slammed the move as being a violation of international law the foreign ministry is now posting videos of the operation that the. spokeswoman mox is a true triumph of democracy one such video coming from the russian consulate

said that we should be realistic about crimea and that the anik sation of crimea by russia should be seen as a quote permanent provisional arrangement so he was advocating reale politike so they certainly here in russia will be watching closely what happens with the coalition who she's pairing up with but basically people are focusing on america i mean let me just play devil's advocate here we know that the dea is going to be the major disrupter in german politics at least for the next four years is that exactly what russia wants to see. well ahead of the election you know german officials were saying that hacking could be likely that russia is trying to destabilize this election but then the interior minister said that there wasn't any hacking so that could show that actually russia really does want a stable germany russia russian german economic relations are very important so i think it's in russia's interest to actually have a stable germany to have stability here in the country but there is excitement here about the a.f.p. on state t.v. i just i just saw that they had a specific

member of the council on pirate party also says we don't know a lot in russia. or argentina helping a couple on you know to get. them but we don't. think it's our money pollution from their spanish media i don't really know why i usually go back out. in the last election i think it's that time a she is good go to have you. fight you well while the search for russian election meddling continues in council lonia twitter has unveiled a report on how they battled against alleged russian interference in the us twenty sixteen election. and they report it confirms it's now closed over two hundred accounts relating to what they say was banned and even this channel was also featured in the report. the statement says twitter has revealed confidential information on artie's adverts outlay to the u.s. senate they claim over fouls and tweets quote definitely or potentially targeted the u.s. markets however after referring to russia several times at twitter to admit that actually quote no accounts of russian origin trying to interfere in the voting process have been found we

same thing true with russia. we've been in unity with russia. we now believe we've got a ticket to the next plateau. the next possibility will be to maintain the unity. we need to build resiliency and democratic institutions across europe airbrushes aggression is not obviously named at the united states. principal targets in europe. we strengthen the resiliency and work with regional organizations such as beos p.e. another had a worse ranking democrat on the commission. many challenges in addition to russia. you've got rags, turkey and how we deal with turkey. the migration issues. you have unity against isis. you have concerns of erosion in the democratic process and some of our european countries were members of e.u. and nato. you have a full plate and we look forward to the discussion we thank you for your willingness to be here and take on this responsibility. >> governor, we thank you so much for being here and i want to join in the senator cardin and thanking him for many years of service both interstate and on behalf of us here in our cou

today marks two years since russia launched its anti terror campaign in syria we look back at what's been achieved in that time. although there you're watching aussie international broadcasting to you live the most studio in moscow and you karen good to have you with us. spain's catalonia is on the edge of what could prove a momentous occasion is controversial independence referendum on sunday is planned as the two and a half thousand polling stations will participate even though madrid has ordered them to be shut down as it were gone to the vote is illegal locals have staged sit ins to prevent the crackdown on medina cotton of i reports from one school being used as a polling station. we're standing very close to one else these schools located here and the barcelona city center it is a place for voting on sunday now police have been ordered to shut down old polling station so the people of this neighborhood decided to stay within the doors of the school inside of the school to prevent this from happening you know you're going to what you see here was not planned beforehand we were l

officials are now conducting searches of russia's diplomatic premise season san francisco and washington that was shut down on the state department's order russia has slammed the move saying it's a clear violation of international. we are witnessing an example vandalism you need to match. this in the legal takeover of russian corporate c.e.o. brown having been expected so she's going to give us we don't call comes out. the counterterrorism chief has revealed the britain has the highest number of islamic extremists in europe. i think we have it right. here not why. america we're like i'd like you here we already know black people right and of police lieutenant in the u.s. has been fired off the dot com video shows some assuring a woman during a traffic stop that police only killed black people. watching r.t. international with me rose on a low could live from moscow thank you for joining us first story american security says is a carrying out searches of russia's diplomatic properties in the u.s. on orders from the state department the russian foreign ministry has slammed the move as a vi

russia, clinton, private and confidential. and the purpose of that meeting was laid out in comically blunt terms. good morning, the crown prosecutor of russia met with his father this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and dealings with russia and be useful to your father. this is high level sensitive information but it is part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump. help along by aris and emim. so that was the trump tower meeting. this statement saying that trump tower meeting was a meeting of, what was it, meeting about the program about the adoption of russian children, the statement was just bull. and that false statement was put out in the name of donald trump jr. but the washington post later reported that the statement was dictated by the president himself. and then the white house confirmed the president's involvement in that statement saying, the president weighed in as any father would. well, now, here

russia has retaliated by expelling. american diplomats and their associates so it's just it's escalated to this point why now i do not know it seems that president trump initially wanted to try and recalibrate their relations with russia to try and build a peaceful and profitable for both nations and he's been hitting. ever since his election. some sort of. american status. to make sure he can't do that so it's very stagnant you know right i've spoken to already two former ambassadors who told me that you know there's absolutely zero chance of a search finding anything incriminating in any way shape or fashion especially when you consider that they've been given although not be long thirty six hours in of time to sort of clean shop again while i conduct a search is this just for the for the pantomime for the theater of showing people going into you know a russian consulate in this seeming false. i think there's a sense to create it always in these sort of acts but also. concerning to me is that there is a senate senate

the russia investigation. i have been hearing you this morning saying you are focused on other things, but it's a national security issue that which russia was doing to impede our election. it just is by definition. what do you feel about the implications of what russia did and do you endorse what the special counsel is doing? >> we developed a strategy for coping with russia and secretary tillerson is in the lead on this, and essentially what we have to do with russia is three things. we have to confront their destabilizing behavior. the president is going to meet with a nation under threat from russia, and this is a nuclear armed nation. we had the long cold war with the soviet union, and we want to detour other conflicts, and we have to make sure we keep that in mind as well. the third thing we want to do is find areas of cooperation where we can work together in our mutual interests. what we have seen in recent years is russia deflects anything they can to disrupt the interests of our allies and the united

russia relations obviously russia's interference in the american elections. and other issues there's also a many areas for cooperation the iran's nuclear deal. how to deal with north korea a common interest in dealing with global climate change and certainly a common interest in combating this phony islamic extremism and terrorism so and that requires robust diplomatic missions and in each other's countries and frankly i have many disagreements with donald trump. but the one thing that i had hoped the administration might do is in fact to improve relations with russia and obviously that's not happening. with regard to what's particularly happening over the last a few hours and what's going to happen over the next few hours today with regards to cheese and russian premises in america russia is very angry about that base and it's largely saying this is unprecedented do you think it is justified in any way to say these premises in this manner. well of course as long as they're active diplomatic premises then they are protected under the vienna convention which i

i see in russia and in the u.s. should be parents if they stop or we should teach that there were thirteen hundred years.

is extremely expensive russia's conventional weapons are not too cheap either in other words russia has much more weapons and troops than germany germany spends about as much as russia if we are to increase our defense spending from forty billion which is one point two percent to two percent by twenty twenty four and we adjusted for inflation in take into account g.d.p. growth let's say by one point five percent this gives us almost seventy billion euros which is almost twice as much of a drop long so defense spending will double yes we'll be spending twice as much on our military will be spending more than the british who has nuclear weapons more than the french should also have nuclear weapons because i would be worried about germany arming itself too much with a fact we should take a closer look at the figures some people say we should build up our military because the russian military is getting stronger but that's not true russia has a program to block noises military by twenty twenty six and russia plans to spend six hundred billion euros on it if i remember right the russian

it's my firm opinion that russia all along has want to friendly relations has wanted the u.s. as a partner and there's no reason that we should reject that all of branch that i think russia has been holding out for us entering that property was a violation of the vienna conventions. and i don't know where it's going to and i do get the sense from russia that they do not want to escalate. switching gears now hurricane erma has slammed into the southern coast of florida bringing storm surges and sustained winds of one hundred eighty kilometers per hour i mean these are pictures from the city of naples which is near the eye of the storm entire roads have been turned into rivers more than six million people have fled the storm's path in the biggest evacuation in u.s. history and the national hurricane center says that for those who remain situation is life threatening over the past week has been devastating the caribbean islands i mean at least twenty seven lives there. miami has also been hit by severe flooding and high winds have brought down construction crane. across southern

always the head of the north korean delegation speaking at the eastern economic forum in russia's far east our correspondent daniel hawkins is there and reports now on how the crisis talks dominated the if it . north korean delegation the riving giving a speech just in the central hall to my left was very much something people waiting for those a big media scramble to hear what they had to say quote particularly taking a strong uncompromising position saying their development of the nuclear program was something that was not up for discussion in the meantime in the hall just next door or the leaders of russia south korea japan and mongolia were discussing also what to do about this crisis the world has been watching for some time and although there are differences in how to resolve the crisis they also do have it seems some things in common take a listen. to the final goal of these measures and steps is a peaceful diplomatic resolution to the crisis and they'd like to emphasize that there will be no war on the korean peninsula i am certain of that. those are good. just like my south k

maneuvers and russia for the first time in several months has its own exercise and that's aggressive you know they say that it's a preparation for an attack either against ukraine or against it well it shows all of this shows here that nato is necessary that's what this is all about you let's change gears a little bit guys. i was reading an article in a conservative news dot com by. robert perry how regime change wars led to korea crisis this i suggest to our readers to have a look at this here. this there's no when you look at media coverage of north korea there is no backstory at all and he almost never very rarely even mention the ears of the korean war itself we have to point out to our viewers that during that conflict there the united states air force destroyed every virtually every single standing building in the country in the first year of the war and it lasted three years the war isn't over there's an armistice here but if you take a look at the way the north koreans look at the world libya iraq. then all of a sudden their thinking is a lot more rational because he's crazy

in particular expressed russia's eagerness to normalize relations with washington and russia for you. in brief relations between the two countries to relations between the united states and russia. international peace and progress as well as strategic stability according to the diplomat the meeting took place in a warm and constructive atmosphere commenting on the meeting the ambassador said that moscow is ready to take concrete steps to improve relations with washington and despite the ongoing diplomatic spat between the countries that saw us russia relations sink to one of the lowest points in history and said he believes the situation is mendable provided there's enough well to cast aside political differences and work together now this is all quite a positive shift from the rhetoric we've been hearing from both sides lately and it seems that improve relations between the two countries seems even more promising considering the new russian ambassador was actually a key member of the team that worked on the two thousand and ten new start bilateral nuclear arms reduction agreement we

if this is a real story the russia story the russia gate story and and he said it's b.s. it's simple it's not i mean it's it's very transparent ok and if you c.n.n. wants to explain that is diversity when i you know then they needed communications director to communicate their message here richard please go ahead and i'm sure you disagree that's why you're here go you're. you know what's not in dispute peter what's not in dispute according to the seventeen intelligence agencies the united states is that russia interfered with the us elections every single agency every single witness before congress was associated with the intelligence community says there is zero doubt that starting with the latter were putin on down that there was meddling interference dick cheney called it an act of war so that's what there's no doubt about so you know people can talk about it in these terms of oh it's this big nothing it's not a big nothing and you know why he said what stupid thing he said you know you'll have to ask him again. to basically if you're on your air it's just stupid ok th

russia's new ambassador to the u.s. meets president we look at the challenges the diplomats will face. and germany's foreign minister tells our t.v. that sanctions against russia could be lifted if a truce in eastern ukraine is established. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is arch international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us now the syrian army says it has broken islamic states blockade of an air base in the city of. the syrian army minister break the siege over the military airports here in de desert but let me fantasize something that civilians and syrians all over syria are so had be and they consider it as a moment of triumph on the way to defeat as a leader over this the this soil of the country if you are talking about the military operations state run media reported today that the military operations started by the forces into cemetery in the south was the don't result link forces holding the air pays of the airports. it's or to mention that this is of course the fairest meeting between

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international now russia has summoned the deputy chief of the u.s. diplomatic mission in the country to express anger at the american security services intention to search a russian trade mission in washington moscow described it as a clear act of aggression we consider the planned illegal search of russian diplomatic premises in the absence of russian officials and the threat we have received to break down the door of the building is an unprecedented act of aggression. ok let's get more n'est now from within a quick turnover he's across the story medina so what can we expect to happen next then. well while the u.s. plans to view russian trade mission in washington early on friday it was reported that the b. i was planning to search the general consulate premises in san francisco which means that in just a few hours staff members will have to clear their premises for the us security services to conduct the search now it will not only be carried out at russia's consulate offices but also at the apartments of staff who live in the building and who have

where we endedh which is russia. a lot is happening this week regarding facebook that during to turn over to investigators advertisements that they say were bought by russia's attempt to influence the election. both of you are watching this closely. the thing that is striking to me, you may or may not agree with me with these comparison,, this is a form of warfare in the 21st century. i am hearing it from the long time russia experts both inside and recently outside the u.s. government, this is something new. people have watched the career,ry of putin's they thought that he was headed in the direction away of integrating with the west. this rhetoric that there is a war going on, only in the last six months to one year that i started hearing from russia hands. the worsening of the situation from event where we were just a few years ago. from aris: i just came meeting with the lip the when he and foreign minister, he -- the lithuanians have been sounding the russia alarm for years and years. he is essentially feels tha

the e.u. a much closer ally than russia i see russia as a as a very important. potential ally for the united states america is trying to reorient itself at the end of the cold war it ended up as the one hyper power in the world but i hope your listeners will understand that america never saw a world had germany we kind of inherited it and the world is down moving toward sort of six regional dominant powers and donald trump instinctively gets this so the what's going on here is america's just kind of feeling its way into a post cold war era twenty five years after the fact. so with so much resistance from both the democrats and republicans can america's stance on russia ever change is that even realistic oh yes. oh it's not just realistic. but particular i understand as you read from my column at forbes dot com you know russia's sense of vulnerability and i said in that column that you know people all over the world prefer guns butter to guns people all over the world prefer butter to guns but if they feel threatened they'll choose guns and so the more america se

does or about to do an exercise in be able rouge russia. that's going to tail up to one hundred thousand russian troops moving into into that country the great concern is they're not going to leave and that's you know that's not paranoia on did you get that one hundred thousand troops that's just the russians not counting the forces and bella ruse i mean that's probably enough to storm europe and yes they are concerned what europe thinks russia does it is undisputed that we have seen a demonstration of the capabilities and power of the russians and one who does that has only to look at the high number of forces participation in the south but exercise more than one hundred south and it doesn't end there there are more fantastic predictions was that a neighbors think russia does well seriously wired the head of the zoppot thousand to seventeen drills is numerous aggressive forces taking part in it and there is a demonstrative preparation for war with the west now russia and belarus are allowing three nato observers to monitor the exercise eve

between the two countries russia's foreign ministry says such a threat and the security of russian citizens. the u.s. security service intends to raise the general consulates in san francisco on the second of september including the flats of stuff members residing in the same building who possess immunity being said we are talking about invasion of the consular offices and the apartments of diplomatic staff with the latter being asked to leave not to stand in the way of the f.b.i. the news of these searches is really an unexpected and forceful further escalation on america's part now russian russia's foreign ministry spokesperson marias a horrible said that this order poses a direct threat to the security of russian citizens because the searches will not be limited to the consulate itself but will also include the apartments of the russian diplomats where they and their families live and all of whom of course have diplomatic immunity now on saturday staff members and their families including children will have to leave their homes for up to twelve hours understandably causing outrage on rus

trump and russia before, during and after russia was attacking the presidential election. the other side of reporting on this scandal increasingly is documenting and keeping track of the number of proven known admitted contacts between trump and russia that they have tried to cover up. that they have lied about and that means members of trump's immediate family, members of his campaign, members of his transition, members of his administration and yes, the president himself. in watergate they said the coverup was worse than the crime. in this one, it feels like the coverup won't stop. feels like we're all still living it now. joining us now is my friend david. great to see you, thanks for being here tonight. >> thank you. thank you for the very genius introduction. >> you're going to get more embarrassed as this interview goes on because i want to talk to you about this book project with michael but first i want to talk about felix sater. donald trump has lied about knowing felix sater in the past or at least he has suggested that he's had no recollection of him and tried t

now russia and the u.s. all tuning up for a project to build a space station that orbits the moon the station will serve as a launch pad for a further space exploration including one missions to mars when we spoke to former iowa says come on that leroy chiao he sinks joint projects like this help nations to improve their relations on the earth. this deep space gateway is one of the key components of the new architecture that is more moon centric now and it's basically a node a very small a human tended kind of a space station that will enable us to both explore the moon and also service a departure point to go farther into the universe including possibly or hopefully one day to mars we want to go to mars in my opinion i think it makes a lot of sense to go back to the moon first because we want to make sure that everything we send them to mars before we send the crew there is going to work so we want to make sure habitats work power sources power generators the rovers spacesuits we want to train crews there t

and russia is becoming increasingly dangerous. and when russia gave the u.s. notice to clear out seven hundred fifty five employees for the buildings here in moscow they gave them a month to do so the u.s. gave russia less than forty eight hours in a game is that perhaps donald trump trying to show that he's being tough on russia that he doesn't have any kind of friendly relationship with them. i do think that dad is probably what this is about and as you say we're talking about human beings here you know we're talking about people who live in the united states who may have lived here for years. and to treat people this way. is very disturbing to me and again you know you talking about san francisco this consulates been there a long time california has a lot of russian russians there and this. particular consulate in san francisco gives out i saw an estimate maybe thirteen thousand or so veces per year this will really hurt. russian people you know real people who need these services and of course it will hurt the diplomats who are being affected by this so i

on to other news now the work of tang creases being on it in russia today to mark the event. took to the tracks to find out just what it's like to be in a key component of any battlefield. there's a battle ready frank wife of the training range but before i get close to it i'll have to test the dodgy terrain myself. with i like cows living but i call the oil goes the din. one of my goals is a test drive to see if a person with a regular license like myself can get this t. eighty go in. the driver's seat is right here. here we go. there's dirt everywhere. trust me there is not much room in here. somewhere. there is no steering we. don't right now. we are running when you're running a regular. the freight for you. it's the other way. low mileage one of those shows she said well obviously i didn't do. that well but at least i didn't get off track and i'll tell you what these guys have got a really tough job aside from firing the cannon and. everyone at the base has the skills to easily drive the eighty three times faster than me but the wind would seem much smoother and we agree