or most media look in russia. people who acquired to comolli. some really wish were suspect that we see in russia or. the media and in the west the impression is is completely different. more moralists more and more people in germany ordinary people. are dull tingo that they scruple case hasn't been proved good they're sold in principle into pro real which meets indulge for the accused has been done all the spiceworks russia has to prove they detest not always in business critical which is really ridiculous because this proof can be given to its i think the organ in people feel that not everything is right what is transmitted over so much media . given what you just said their hands why do you think the us and half of europe is standing behind britain and expelling russian diplomats with the script. i don't i don't think that i have to see him go or express some opinion i read a book many years ago that the grand chessboard a written by zbigniew brzezinski. he drawled. also i think was published twenty years ago.

russia failed to ensure syria destroyed its chemical weapons program russia killed the joint investigative mechanism when it found the side liable for chemical attacks the credibility of this council will not survive if we fail to hold russia accountable in response to the heated words from the united states and the united kingdom we heard from the russian ambassador pointed out that russia has actually given up its chemical weapons and that the o.p.c. w. has confirmed that russia no longer possesses chemical weapons from there he invoked the memory of when calling powell representing united states in dressed that very body the u.n. security council holding the vials of powder that he said were chemical weapons from iraq he reminded the council and that there seems to be a history of rather unsubstantiated allegations against different countries regarding chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction from the united states in the u.k. . we are living in a very special time in front of our eyes incredible things are happening the process of replacing the presumption of innocence with the

what about russia's role in venezuela and russia's role in the middle east? and i talk about venezuela, but then i want to get to syria and touch on syria and maybe some of the news you were able to break. >> the situation in venezuela is a terrible human tragedy. we're seeing a country implod g imploding. at various stages going back to the early days putin was in office, there was this embrace, this bromance between him and hugo chavez. a lot of that was around weapons sales and venezuelans had a lot of money and were buying significant and expensive weapons system. at some point, when the venezuelans had trouble paying for those, it switched more to a relationship focused on energy. you had the russian state energy led by a portuguese speaking intelligence officer who is probably the most powerful person in russia other than putin launch a pet project to embrace the government of venezuela and expand russia's commercial activity there. in recent years as the government has started to kind of go through this terrible domestic and economic crisis, they have

and russia let's listen in. international community have made the conclusion through guardian fear a level of trust with the official london we call once again the poll the united kingdom to provide all materials at its disposal regarding the safe incident of three colored regard in three spread of chemical weapons on the british soil let's now go over to our the issue of not only get off of the global agenda we're not just about what was responsible but we receive fair regular and says with requests to comment on things that he isn't in the army or we do it in the regular basis let me now get back to read to him closely follow through three years in the republic of myanmar if leadership takes effort to ensure the peaceful choices within the country and get your lives in some beyond the regions and difficulties and remains that aren't caring about media conference by maria's or her of just breaching into other issues as she said herself other global op dates from that conference if we do hear any more though on

russia and china to become . quite a lot and indeed quite thick and would be quite difficult to undermine though in the long run russian strategists understand that they're living beside. a dragon so i'm sorry that i have to go but i appreciate the conversation thank you very much for this interview of the best of luck thank you. the firing of rex tillerson at the state department surprised a few tillerson was often described as bland and on numerous occasions out of step with his boss donald trump the nomination of mike come peo to replace him is any plan. you need the good and the bad you need capitalism to work both winners and losers you can't bail out every single bank that gets into trouble you can't bail out every single post i made free money you gotta let the system weed out the losers otherwise you end up with you know a state controlled state maintained price fixing regime by the state that resembles all failed such experiments in the past why not just let the free market be the free market. there are

beach presupposes a certain degree of politeness and having to please russia critics or russia haters both at home and a bit in his own administration right well let me say two things first to clarify why i use that language because i saw a number of things happen that i think the kremlin had a hand in everything from the attempted assassination of the double agent in br. and to some of the support for the assad regime and its barrel bombing and artillery attacks on its own populations in syria and perhaps even issues like the numb soft killing in russia and the evidence that i have seen suggests complicity at the highest levels of the russian government in some of these tragedies which had a very human cost now i could be wrong but that's my working understanding and that's why i use strong words at the expense of the russian president however i also have written about how i think that lattimer putin is genuinely respected among russians because he did help stabilize the country after the yeltsin years he tried to restore a sense of stability growing prosperity international prestige

russia expels sixty u.s. diplomats and shuts the american consulate incident they just copying washington's move over the script all case while the state department says it was a of the right to respond further. sources close to wiki leaks say the ecuadorian embassy has brought julian a saunders internet access to stop him tweeting about catalonia and design a vivienne westwood says he must get on line. it's really important that he's got i say to the world by old we expose the t.v. manages to do. and netflix users threatened to boycott the online entertainment giant as it appoints former president obama's national security adviser to its board of directors. thank you for watching the news headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow on cape partridge. russia will expel sixty u.s. diplomats and close the american consulate in st petersburg emulating washington's move over the scripts case foreign minister sergei lavrov announced the retaliatory measures against the u.s. and pledged a mir

sovereignty and saying it is high and saying it is highly likely russia was behind it you say russia always gets the blame you see you don't see you seem to be down to the russia is to blame i think it's too early to judge because we didn't have any proof so far i think it's very clear that one needs to have a statement of solidarity because different from your point of view i was shocked and i think a lot of the richest people in salisbury were shocked that something like this could happen in their country and i find it quite understandable that it's a difficult situation for may you needs to react somehow but i think it would have been much better. to wait with laboring one second very few say that russia always gets the blame why it is wrote russia are always get the blame i find that there's a certain stereotype of russians as it's often said in british media and even british politicians there should be much more a different station between what is the kremlin what just actually if certain networks we don't know in the secret service and i think one couldn't my. shouldn't be so f

he talked about russia's intervention in ukraine. disinformation campaigns from russia. and russia's alleged use of biological weapons in the united kingdom. texas congressman mac thornberry chairs the armed ervices committee. mr. thornberry: the committee will come to order. committee welcomes general scaparrottii back today to testify on the threats and posture in the european commands area of responsibility. there, he faces the full range of security challenges from russia's constant modernization of its nuclear weapons and delivery systems to the hybrid and political warfare it wages against the u.s. and others. rep. thornberry:'s tactics extended, as we have been reminded this week, to target fascinations as well. i think it is clear the unit its tactics extend as we've been reminded this week to targeted assassinations as well. i think that it is clear that the u.s. has neglected both ends of the warfare spectrum in recent years and much in between. but the recent budget agreement and the new national defense strategy and nuclear posture review give us the chance t

numerous as russia said. expressions of interest in holding talks with the americans the americans said no we're not going to talk and there's the clip of putin speech which was broadcast which was singled out a lot by russia watchers including by me where putin says well they didn't listen to us before they'll listen to us now. and i think that was in a way it was. it seemed to me that it was less of a threat than it was an expression of being very keen to be seen as an equal player to want to sit around the table with the americans on an equal basis and that the development of these new weapons a new entitlement to sit at that table and that the united states had to listen you know well daniel i mean you in russia is a very important nuclear power let's all face it ok we have an entire history of arms control agreements because because of the possibility of. of a mistake a miscalculation that's why we have these agreements but they're running out running out in two thousand one hundred twenty twenty one and

this week we devote our attention to russia. russia abroad — after what the uk and its allies called the first offensive use of a nerve agent in europe since the second world war. and russia at home — as a presidential election is expected to deliver vladimir putin another six years in the kremlin. my guests this week: the former observer writer now political commentator adam raphael. jef mcallister, the american broadcaster, formerly the head of time magazine's london bureau. italian journalist and film maker annalisa piras, and russian political commentator, and former kremlin advisor, alexander nekrassov. welcome to you all. let's start by discussing how the british government is handling the events of the last few days, how do you think theresa may is doing? i think she's doing pretty well, she was home secretary and this is an area she is familiar with. it is almost proforma, what she has been doing. sling out a few russian spies, you sound tough. she carried the house of commons with her, i think she's done her politic

russia failed to ensure syria destroyed its chemical weapons program russia killed the joint investigative mechanism when it found the side liable for chemical attacks russia used its veto to shield assad five times last year. it has also provided cover for syria in the hague at the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. now in response to the heated words from the united states and the united kingdom we heard from the russian ambassador and he responded on a number of levels one of his points that he made was he pointed out that russia has actually given up its chemical weapons and that the o.p.c. w. has confirmed that russia no longer possesses chemical weapons from there he invoked the memory of when call in powell representing united states and dressed that very body the u.n. security council holding the vials of powder that he said were chemical weapons from iraq he reminded the council and pointed out that at this point now we have the united kingdom coming was simply a letter and that that there seems to be a history of rather unsubstantiated allegations against diffe

russia. let me explain something to you, and the peasants -- and this has nothing to do with the upcoming presidential election. whoever becomes the next president, regardless, every person, every citizen of russia has to realize what is happening in the world today and what kind of challenges we face today. technological changes are happening at an increasing speed. those who take advantage of this new technology will lunge forward. those who are unable to do that will be buried under this tide of technological progress. being backward technologically means undermining the capabilities of your country and eventually losing your sovereignty. that is a fact. this will weaken the country, undermine its potential, because new jobs, modern companies, prospects will emerge in other countries and young people will go there, talented people will move there, and society will lose its vitality and development potential as a result. civilizationalng changes in the world today, and this requires us to r

games back and forth between russia and england and russia in the united states you know there was an excellent book written by one of your countrymen the called the great game that details this activity dating back to the late seventy's hundreds early to hundreds i lived in russia in one in the nine. when the united states openly meddled. in boris yeltsin's reelection campaign there was a cover of time magazine after after yeltsin won reelection there were the it's a picture of yeltsin and the headline of the yanks to the rescue because we had advisors american advisors to reporting directly to bill clinton who were aiding yeltsin in that victory and this is just part of the way of use. the countries are operated toward each other forever we've always been interested in each other's affairs i think the difference is now that there's a political angle towards demonization of russia that is inspiring some politicians in the sitting and in america to make up a public issue out of this in a way that they have they would now be floor that they wouldn't have have. sated. such a heated situ

russia's record of conducting state sponsored assassinations and our assessment that russia three views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the act against. the script. now a man who has had his own run ins with the kremlin is bill browder author of red notice how it became who turns number one enemy he joins us from washington welcome to d.w. do you agree with the british government's assessment that russia poisoned the union square park. it's absolutely clear to me that russia is behind this all the evidence points in that direction he was a considered to be a traitor to russia. russia has a history of assassinating people they consider to be traitors both at home and abroad russia has a history of using rare poisons as in the case of letting it go they were caught in the. case and now we've discovered what the name of the poison is the name of the nerve agent which comes from russia so it's it's pretty definitive that this was russia behind it now the big question is what happens

over russia as the british prime minister counterparts over the poisoning of a former spy. for punishment and some others. is the way forward. for violence ahead of the country's game against the netherlands later friday. evening ten pm friday here in moscow when i was kevin zero in thanks to using r.t. international and first tonight three people were killed in southern france after a gunman hijacked a car before taking hostages at the supermarket the attacker had pledged allegiance to islamic state and was eventually shot dead by special forces officers president mccrone called the instant a terror attack by islamist. that would be our country today suffered an islam is terrorist attack in caucus on and treb terrorist has been identified he was killed during his so an investigation will have to answer some important questions on this when and how was he radicalized and how and when did he procure the weapon the attack was claimed by the islamic state group and these claims are being assessed we have a several years paid without blood to know the terrorist menace. the inte

against russia over the poisoning of a former double agent his daughter. to answer questions about the origin of the nerve agent. to block. the technology. of entire cities and future generations. just. at nine pm in sydney on one in the afternoon here in moscow this wednesday march the fourteenth wherever you're tuning in from welcome to our to international our top story donald trump fired u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson appointing incumbent cia director mike pump aoe to the position instead he announced a surprise reshuffle on twitter the president later explained his decision to reporters saying he did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. i've been talking about this for a long. we got along really well but. when you look at iran i think it's terrible. i want to record something. felt different so we really think. we have a very similar process i think well read a very good i like read a lot. from it. i'll be thinking the record over. a rumor is the tillerson was heading for the door has been circulating for months in the media and with repo

russia, russia, they chanted, but in his fourth term, are russia and the west destined for a cold war? we will be talking to steve in a moment. before that, a couple of your thoughts on the coverage of russia. russians often declare they do not know what to believe, that is a product of kremlin policy, plus fear of being seen as a dissenter. how did steve penetrate this? is he making enough efforts to discover the true thoughts of ordinary russians. concern about how bbc news has covered russian reactions to the accusations of its involvement in the salisbury poisoning. the kremlin steve rosenberg joins me now on the line from moscow. you do give us the kremlin‘s side of the story, as we saw in the e—mail, some viewers fear that it gives them credibility, how do you answer that? i consider my job as the bbc moscow correspondent to tell viewers in britain and around the world what moscow is thinking, this is a very confusing story and it is important to listen to what the russians are saying. they have a range of arguments and i think then i have to use my experience of living and

to know what the substance is we've heard from foreign minister sergey lavrov said russia that russia will definitely retaliate in connection to the expulsion of the twenty three russian diplomats certainly a quid pro quo scenario is sort of traditional in these kinds of scenarios but he did underscore that russia will continue to use diplomatic language so as it stands the latest is germany from the u.k. of no issued a joint statement on the poisoning says that it was highly likely to been orchestrated by the kremlin it requests that moscow provides the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons with information about the novacek nerve agent program it comes following the british government's decision wednesday to take retaliatory measures against russia than in an address to parliament. the twenty three of its russian diplomats will be expelled from the u.k. she said high level bilateral meetings are also being suspended to furthermore that includes a visit from russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov that's been canceled and on top of that they'll be no official delegatio

is eager to continue investing in russia to continue cooperating in russia. was discussed the situation further let's not cross live to earl rasmussen the executive vice president of the ration center well thank you very much indeed for talking to us for if we were hearing opinions from both sides or mean why do you think such far reaching punitive decisions are being taken before the investigation into the script our case is over i mean why is there such a rush. ok i agree with your previous representative from from russia that i think this is pre-determined. we've got. no evidence really has been presented we have. to rush to judgment. there's a lot of political situations going on in the u.k. right now. dealing. the price. to the. i think we're getting a few we got a few connections were problems review think we're trying to reestablish that connection with you and come back too soon as we can thank you. well meanwhile north korea's leader has said he is ready to meet the presidents of the u.s. and south korea for talks that statement came from kim jong un

crame year we had syria we asked the west and campaign against russia and russia gate to gate. scandal now what scrape all it all the olympics that's what i said the olympics it'll help put in i mean i think. that yesterday says it all he said i didn't plan to vote so he's a mate. mean for outsiders looking in there are only two figures in the selection there was a lot of your putin obviously and then your subject socialite she got what one point six seven percent of the vote i mean she actually went to washington d.c. campaign in washington d.c. and nobody accused of. meddling in she went to live in d.c. and louisville edgerton there's a great image in. an american candidate that openly going to moscow and meeting. russian officials in the kremlin and creating lunch with them and discussing the presidential election in the united states what would this do if once he was there when she got a lot of criticism here also she got a lot of cynicism but nowhere near what an american. and it would get over there and she would still love to take part in that equates she was all the tim

russia today has informed me of the steps that russia will be taking in response to that. as our prime minister made clear in the houses of parliament, we have no dispute with the russian people. and a large part of the work of my embassy here in russia been and is to promote those productive links between russia and the united kingdom. but we will always do what is necessary to defend ourselves, our allies and our values against an attack of this sort, which is an attack not only on the united kingdom, but on the international rules—based system on which all countries including russia depend for their safety and security. thank you. that was the uk ambassador. in a moment, we'll talk to kathryn stanczyszyn outside the foreign office and charlotte gallagher is in new malden in south west london. but first, let's speak to our correspondent richard galpin in moscow. so the uk ambassador has been told in no uncertain terms what the russian response was this morning? yes, he was summoned this morning and the meeting in the russian foreign ministry here in moscow only lasted

we gave russia the opportunity to explain, and we asked russia to salisbury, and we asked russia to declare the material to the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons. russia did neither. therefore, we announced certain steps. russia today has informed me of the steps that russia will be taking in response to that. as our prime minister made clear in the houses of parliament, we have no dispute with the russian people. and a large part of the work of my embassy here in russia has been and is to promote those productive links between russia and the united kingdom. but we will always do what is necessary to defend ourselves, our allies and our values against an attack of this sort, which is an attack not only on the united kingdom, but on the international rules—based system on which all countries including russia depend for their safety and security. thank you. that was the uk ambassador to russia. he was mentioning the prime minister and her response. we should hear something from theresa may in the next 15 to 20 minutes, as she is giving a speech to the party faithful. we e

he also blew a work with russia here. of course we will wreck work with russia. we believe in the united nations and the security council. we believe in the international rules-based system. we want this counsel to work together to resolve conflict together. of course we will work with russia to achieve those ends here on this counsel. i set out in detail how the conventional chemical weapons work. councilmembers have heard from my russian colleagues and i won't go into great detail again. i will simply say under article ix we have asked russia for an explanation. russia's response was to say they consider request to be null and void. we have also asked d.o.t. cw to support us with an independent verification. the russian council talks about samples but again this is a misunderstanding of the convention. there are no provisions in the convention which required the uk to share -- collected in a grammatical investigation. the convention does provide copies of samples taken for the purposes of inspection. there is not an inspected state party in the council. we are

either russia was informing their syrian colleagues about the content of the negotiations or russia was taking directions from the syrian colleagues about the content of the negotiations when the fifteen member body that leaves the united nations convened we heard from the u.s. ambassador nikki haley she accused russia of deception hypocrisy and brutality but from there her remarks took a rather interesting turn she went off on kind of a tangent in her remarks referring to what she said was diplomats leaving the room to call the syrian regime now the russian ambassador to the united nations and in benghazi he took to the floor and responded to the accusations from nikki haley with some rather clear facts about what's taking place on the ground in eastern guta and he pointed to the solid achievements of the russian sponsored humanitarian pause also describe the fact that russia is providing food and medicine to those who've been forced to flee the area and now from there he went on to be quite critical of how the u.n. security council meetings are being conducted and what does essentiall

s really praising her recent statement on russia and taking a family line against russia of course there are some critics who say well the tory party like jeremy coughlan their leader of the labor party accused of taking russian money that was something that he criticised but i think that was something a lot of offers parliamentary colleagues weren't actually so happy about so generally there is a lot of support for taking a strong line against russia because it is something that that hurts the country and to resort to reason may who's actually quite embattled and not having made such a good figure in the negotiations recently it's.

to russia. of these very strange people that you're talking about are somehow connected to the russian authorities whereas as you and peter peter and i both know they're not all most of these people are antagonistic to the russian authorities and of course they have their own quarrels and that's why. they've come to london to get out of the reach of the russian authorities and they're bringing their problems to gruesome and we've seen the results so if the british really do take action to stop these people coming to grips it's not going to it's not going to anger or of the russians the russians will be pleased about it this is again part of the upside down world that we were talking about before you know anyone what do what does the government want i mean obviously if russia has and given any kind of evidence about this case forensic evidence i mean what in the world are they expect the russians to do and what do you think the sanction will be afterwards because you know. she's a political mess

crushed russian russian russians and russian russian the russian the russian russia russia russia and the russians it was done for political purposes only and not as it can for civilians we spoke to an expert from damascus university who said civilians in kuta are living in dire conditions on vats what the un security council should be concerned about. we know that there is a question when we are defeating terrorism in the media before they will leave this is the same story with these two bottles. we know from our experience a lot of evidence is a lot of be able to look at what happened with them with these terrorists they where the hostage is nothing but let me quickly hear the other side where is these western campaign why they are not to have been these people who are docked more than one week in a complaint that they are interested in. a diplomatic row between russia and the u.k. over the poisoning of a form of double agent continues to escalate on saturday moscow announced it would expel twenty three british diplomats in response to a similar move by the u.k. so because colin pow

the west and if you're still russia change we're in the midst of a gracious in relations between russia and the west we don't know how it will be in the west has its own internal crisis go he has it so i think i think what would you print or all of the developments inside the west i mean what we have seen in the last two years rodney atkins some british but it would want to say that the sputnik yesterday when we discussed this election he said that look at the elections you need to be sixty percent of the people voted for the party yes there were friendly to russia you know that but non-systemic in germany non-systemic barcus again in grant very few people are happy with merkel in france if the election for the presidential election had been fair there were in place to come to those who were very broad brush it and they were so it's very interesting i think on the this point or with marshall explanations why the establishment in the establishment parties use russia as a for oil at the gate if you know what i'm going to do and it just it was just finishing it so i think a lot will depend

sanctions for meddling against russia that coincide with all these measures against russia for the allegedly poisoning against the screen pie that kind of almost confirms what russia has been saying all along that this is some kind of an overall plot and that everyone is against russia and we've heard all kinds of officials and politicians calling all these measures russophobia and i think that is good is going to continue that sort of defiant rhetoric is going to continue here the only sure one there in moscow d.w. correspondent elise thank you so much earlier i also spoke to clinton peel on the story of clinton's an associate fellow with the euro program chatham house in london i asked him if it was likely that this call conflict could escalate further. i think it does and if you're of a peculiar reason if you like that surely it suits those two reason may and fled to mere putin to have a big bust up at the moment that he may putin's got these elections coming up that's we should call them elections but there is a vote to crown him again as for another term in office and the reason may is

did neither therefore we announced certain steps russia today has informed me off the steps that russia will be taking in response to that. the decision to remove twenty three british diplomats from russia mirrored u.k. prime minister to resign may's own statement on wednesday expelling twenty three russian diplomats from london the countermeasures didn't stop with the expulsion of british diplomats from the embassy here they were as well what the russians would call asymmetrical measures to match to reason may's promise of looking more closely at the sources of russian money in the u.k. so britain's diplomatic presence in russia will be further reduced by the closure of its consulate in st petersburg russia second city and the operations of the government funded british council will cease a charity that promotes british culture abroad the russian government has long suspected it of being a cover for british intelligence it is though what in diplomatic speak might be described as a measured response what soon as the russian does not want to escalate the fresh wanted to ask then the resp

russia's top diplomat in the u.s. today saying that what we're seeing today is a major blow to us russian relations just take a listen to part of what he unsaid. she would need a surgeon you in there stuck by me to care what the united states of america is doing today they're destroying what little remained of us russian ties machine you know. i would add that all the responsibility for ruining russian american relations is on the united states of america not say you know my father america i mean there's lots of extremes there right destroying relations all the blame is on the us can we talk about this really now being the new cold war well in rhetoric yes this is true but it's actually quite noticeable an interesting is that the responsibility for the in serious deterioration of relations between russia and the united states but also you know russia and europe is to really put two states into the west in general this isn't. a correct portrayal of what has happened because one has to go back to two thousand and twelve

going back, then, to russia, in your understanding what are russia's goals in the baltic sea? >> i think its consistent with other places and that is that they establish themselves as a respected global power. they undermine the democratic values and the values of the west. they attain to the extent that they can some privileged influence over the nations that border them, particularly the ones that were in the former soviet union and even the baltics they have the similar objective. >> okay. of those type of things, what would you consider as far as their influence in that region? what troubles you the most? >> well, the presence of their, again, disinformation campaign. some political provocation. you know, we see where they approach social media or tv stations, et cetera, in a couple of the baltic countries you have a russian population that, obviously, they target their message to and can share through language. that population is harder to penetrate by the government it self in some cases. so it's a, you know, it's a population that's easier for russian influence and, of

is now imposing sanctions against russia because of russia's meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election now some people maybe that's what but yeah the president said that's going to happen is just a little later than expected right. yes and it's not just the election there are also some other attacks that are being dealt with here so the us has now slapped new sanctions on five russian entities and nineteen individuals most of them connected to the russian intelligence agency and this is for a number of attacks treasury secretary steve minucci and mentions meddling in the russian elections but also destructive cyber attacks on u.s. computer systems and intrusions targeting critical infrastructure which means computer systems for instance that control america's electric grids and of course that is a big issue if the russians are trying to attack the american infrastructure here electricity of course we all dependent on that these days and that is a major concern so the treasury secretary the american finance minister saying we will try to target these people we will make sure th

second russia of one's status quo sought russia of once didn't carry. if mr trump if president did mean business if he was really gory to deliver a strike against moscow a year m.s.e. war not their city yukio but a mess of war was the most likely outcome therefore any kind of reduction in tension is a good news for russia however talking about a possible negotiation than moscow well until recently it would be a good idea to have cells and summit or say assignments be to be in north korean leaders and u.s. president or western leaders it would be a good idea to have them in russia maybe there's a city of moscow where you are still because of on the full seated tour they can be sure or maybe in my native fitters be a way not maybe not moscow but not now. said truth is right now russian issue is very big in the united states probably it has never been the case that russia attracted so much of the favorable attention well since maybe as a hundred fifty years since their anticommunist here and the communist scare saw it to be probably a good idea if russia i

donald trump was paid between 12 and $20 million to bring miss universe to russia. >> russia wanted it, moscow wanted it, everybody wanted the miss universe pageant. we had 18 countries that wanted it. they fought really hard to get it. >> the money came from this man. >> amazing support. >> friend of vladimir putin, sometimes called the trump of russia. >> then they were whisked away to the magnificent estate. >> miss universe was a family affair. his sonsang at the pageant. and his mom got a job too. >> trump seemed thrilled with his new russian friends. >> the richest man in russia. >> before the pageant, trump invited the agalarovs to vegas, to seal the deal. it was guess who was coming to dinner trump style. ross agalarav was there, of course. he's the man who wrote the infamous e-mails to donald trump jr., e-mails that promised dirt on hillary clinton. emmond the singer would help goldstone set up the trump tower meeting with russians. and there was one more mystery guest who would later show up at trump tower. he works for agalarov. trump wined and dined all of them. he was afte

this is the interest of russia, et cetera and to isolate russia from the west. so far putin starting to undermine the key principles of the russian state and system survival. and in the end, i would say that president putin will be presiding over his last chapter. despite of the energy on the surface, we see it apparently, the political thing that would be changed pretty soon, the older position and parliamentry parties will vanish. the older generation will go to the cemetery and now trying to fill the vacuum with new people. it depends what extent -- the new russia position will try to create new resistance and alternative to the putin's regime and to putin's state. thank you. >> that's really interesting. i would like to ask you a follow-up question and then i will turn to vladimir. you say he is putting himself on a course to challenge the current russia system, can you give detail to that? >> if the mechanism of survival of the russian personal system that has been created after the collapse of the soviet union was to use the western resources and finances,

and every time russia gives the very same because there is the russia feels like it has nothing else to provide and this is what the statement by the russian foreign ministry was about tonight because they've said that the you the e.u. has issued have issued a statement a very careful one but we'll get to that a bit later. russia's foreign ministry has said that the e.u. effectively is fueling the media hysteria around the poisoning and they've reiterated the very fact that russia has nothing else to demonstrate that they've provided all the answers that they've said it outright flat out that russia no longer no longer produces the nerve agent used to poison nor is storing no none of that agent is stored in russia the russian chemical weapons program was annihilated was it was destroyed all these the whole stockpile and so what the b. you did the issued a very careful statement saying that they are alarmed but they did not pin the blame on russia unlike the you for example and other some other countries instead. the e.u. has said that it treats the incident very seriously and that th

russia is not going to be. to be driven into the arms race it does not correspond with president putin's. merrily go of domestic economic development and domestic breakthrough in economy so we are all and president we all do not need. and it was confirmed and declared by president putin and this is the main declination that we have to take into account primus best go again take a short break right now when we come back we're going to continue talking to me to be scoffed russian president's press secretary talking about everest think at rest is between russia united states and europe we're talking about the media wars and much more stay with us. the far right to in britain isn't just on the march it's taking violent mother's action i don't like the pick leaning against an argument i see those organizations which are usually split into which we feel different names how do you view that look. a mess of a complex web of british fashion. when lawmakers manufacture consent instead of public wealth. when the ruling cl

numerous russia said. expressions of interest in holding talks with the americans the americans said no we're not going to talk and this is the clip of putin speech which was broadcast which was singled out a lot by russia watchers including by me where putin says well they didn't listen to us before they'll listen to us now. and i think that was in a way it was. it seemed to me that it was less of a threat than it was an expression of being very keen to be seen as an equal player to want to sit around the table with the americans on an equal basis and that the development of these new weapons a new entitlement to sit at that table and that the united states had to listen you know well daniel i mean you're in russia is a very important nuclear power let's all face it ok we have an entire history of arms control agreements because because of the possibility of. of a mistake a miscalculation that's why we have these agreements but they're running out running out in two thousand one hundred twenty twenty one

of russia. is inspiring some politicians in the sitting and in america to make up a public issue out of this in a way that they have they would now be floor that they wouldn't have have. sated. such a heated situation in the past over what essentially is a domestic political aim to scare people into you know being a certainly politically to town allotting america of course had to register as a foreign agent from this the nazi era act don't trump tweet a lot about mainstream media but he seems unable to ban it using your version of calm the f.c.c. . surprise that in britain the prime minister can say things and they immediately the regulator will take steps or or talk about steps in closing down the television station one of the benefits of the american system. is we've we've gone quite a long time in our history without really having a strong official national. media regulator we do have the f.c.c. they did play an important role in the formation. of t.v. and radio stations with a couple of key

based on the knowledge that russia has previously produced this agent and combined with russia's record of conducting state sponsored assassinations including against former intelligence officers whom they regard as legitimate targets the u.k. government concluded that it was highly likely that russia was responsible for this reckless act. we saw only two plausible explanations either this was a direct attack by russia on my country or russia had lost control of a military grade nerve agent which they had developed we requested the russian government to provide an explanation by the end of jews they the thirteenth of march on how this russian produced nerve agent could have been deployed in seoul. they provided no credible explanation which could suggest they lost control of their nerve agent mr president we therefore have no alternative but to conclude that the russian state was responsible for the attempted murder of mr scriptural and his daughter and police officer nick baillie and for threatening the lives of other british citizens in salzburg. mr president this was no common crime

and the united states russia and great britain are not good not on russia's wants russia wants a very good relationship with washington russia wishes for a good relationship with london and the european capitals it can live in long island what's he going to do but he already has a little bit but you know he. keeps but i don't go on with backs and make on the with the i make a sound world order that is that it got used to within the last quarter century after of the soviet union's collapse they really should assist between our two countries that is not going to be this good simply because being a speed test except russia is another world follower and accept a little to be close between washington and moscow and when washington when the american foreign policy needs to be finally able to accept the need for that dialogue then the relationship between moscow and washington is going to improve for that and fortunately we cannot expect in the next in the near future but they really should with the you know to put this new remit to putin's been given above seventy percent is not going to ma