but also russia's standing visibly the west for greece and if russia is behind the soles replace nic what's going on here is putin testing alliances looking to test the west's resolve if the u.k. pushes back hard against russia's what extent is it is it merely giving president putin exactly what he wants. well that's the one point where i agree with the russian guest is that days again here played by it would seem to gain some points abroad to hide he's loss is a total and especially easy going to make situation but it's also a game that he prologues himself he chooses to be on the offensive and i can tell you having been inside the machine room at nato a dream that ukraine conflict is a great reluctance for the western allies to enter into a confrontation and to escalate but as matthew just stated and as i stated earlier this is a watershed event and the question now is how create and could elect teams their responses are going to be the mistress an ounce yesterday but a british prime minister after her but mostly symbolic even dissensions chief looked it would not be automatic sanc

stay put is put in its russia or the kremlin. i say put is russia or the kremlin for the very same for the very reason that this is not directed against russian citizens and russian people they're not enemies namely enemies of the west it's their government that trolls this confrontation with the west but we need to kind of keep the lines open especially with with russian citizens and you mention the elections when these were not free and fair elections i realize that mr putin also based on his propaganda machine has a great deal of support apparently within within the russian population but then why disqualify one candidate by turning him into a pseudo criminal and not allowing him to run that's missed and involved in another potential challenger was assassinated the year before so we cannot speak of fair fair and free elections and there is not an open information. environment in russia and that is it. we're not talking about. the kremlin or the lesson he'd like to bring mr banta men and now because mr bennett was talking about

beach presupposes a certain degree of politeness and having to please russia critics or russia haters both at home and big 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 britain 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 now i'm soft killing in russia and the evidence that i've 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 how. i also have written about how i think that latimer 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 and

to was as the circumstances of the election russia will remain a difficult but russia will also be needed for solutions to the big international conflicts and so we want to remain in dialogue we've also been seeing more and more reaction in the media here in germany if you have a look at what. to say they said that the the when for vladimir putin not to splendid as it may well have been they go on to say that the majority of media in russia was for the president that the majority of the state operated was for the president and that they would have expected this mr putin would have. taken a larger proportion of the vote than it seems that he already has here in the capital the pearl in a tie tong has said well it's been looking towards the relationship between germany and russia and it's not a positive one if you take their they're reading from this they say that the relationship could it well is frosty and could continue to be more remore frosty but if we go back to saturday the maintop lloyd the most read tabloid newspaper building here in germany they ran their congratulations that let

russia, russia, they chanted. but imputing's fourth term are russia and the west destined for a cold war. later the president dismissed accusations that he was behind the nerve agent attack in salisbury. it is rubbish, drivel, nonsense to think russia would do something like that head of a presidential election and the world cup. is pitched to voters had been, stick with me and russia will be strong. and many russians believe that. he's a genius commissioners. putin wants russia to prosper and russians to live in happiness. it is thanks to putin, she says, that russia still exists. but critics of the kremlin say the election was fixed, that only those candidates who stood no chance of unseating putin were allowed to run. the problem is there's no such things russian politics. politics. politics has been eliminated in a show together. there's only one political institution in russia, the physical body of vladimir putin. which was white vladimir putin was always going to win this fight. this election wasn't about ch

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 doubting that 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 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 need to react somehow but i think it would have been much better. to wait with laboring going to say that russia always gets the blame why it is right ro russian are always get the blame i find that there's a certain stereotype of russians as it's often said in british media even. there should be much more difference ation between what is the kremlin what is actually of certain networks we don't know in the secret service and i think one couldn't my. shouldn't be so fast because sometimes it's very. just

oriented towards russia. you have a population that has lived under the russian world view and narrative. there's a lot of efforts -- elite in the country is recognizing need to put space between it and russia and ease the economic problems of the country reaching out to china and the west but russia i think still is hopeful to use the population inside as well. kazakhstan, strategics is same as belarus, keep the country stable and pro-regime person in power. as i said, nazarbayev is 77. kazakhstan defied expectations past 25 years. everybody thought could be unstable and ethnic tensions. neither happened because of him. careful of cultivating multiethnic image for kazakhstan. but border between russia and kazakhstan -- we talked about estonian border. this border is as large as u.s./canada border, slightly larger. majority of the russians in north of the country near that border. 1999/2000, russian stoked p pro-separatist movement most of us forgot about. looking for and found kazak citizens who went to figh

and outside russia. the point of this vagueness is to make inquiries on most impossible. russia denies the international conclusion that they shot down the malaysian airlines flight. to this day, they deny the conclusion of all people that investigated it that they killed the former spy. to this day, no one has pointed a finger at the real murderers of other oppositionon politicias in russia. this is the point of russian security. it is opaque. it cannot be found. peter: i am quoting from newsweek. areu.k. service re-examining deaths of 14 people with connections to russia that were previously dismissed as natural. how much of a crisis is this between the west and russia? and must be the worst since the cold war. gemma: i agree. one thing i have a problem of is this term of "the west." i am somebody who thinks that the cold war is over. i grew up in the soviet union as a german child at the time of the cold war and i think it is good to get rid of these terms and these understandings. i oppose the pictur

so for russia, the outcome of the syrian civil war is as much about russia's internal security, as it is about the country's external security. (bells toll) (speculative music) - [narrator] policymakers disagree on whether to approach putin's russia with engagement or confrontation. - [polyakova] the american people, i think are rightfully quite confused about 'is putin a good guy?' 'is russia really that bad?' 'why should we care?' it's 'cause our political leaders have never clearly articulated what our stance is towards russia. - [w. bush] i found him to be very straight-forward and trustworthy. i was able to get a sense of his soul. - we want to reset our relationship as... - [male voice] let's do it together. - so we will do it together, okay? (both laugh) - russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. not out of strength, but out of weakness. - we look forward to a lot of very positive things happening for russia, for the united states and for everybody concerned. and it's an honor to be with you, thank you. thank you very much. - thanks. - the

with russia here. well i think that the cold war is going on and in some places as. well if in a hot war not only a cold war because we know wash our relations with the united states in this idiom area and in a syrian region for example where have that. direct. confrontation between i'm not taken and the russian. military services one of them supported this first s. and now the syrian governmental forces so i think that she to asian is right dangerous it needs contacts and diplomatic and political messages to settle down all contradictions what we watch today we watch we watch and when any chance to meet mr putin was mr trump and we watch that mr trump is and was he doing it when welcome his russian colleague that's why no dialogue no political contacts no got to do nation in any other place because our opinions our current relations with the united states is critical as i stand for the united states i'm a firm russia won all that satellite it is impossible in the real situation and i think that's the

to know what the substance is we've heard from foreign minister sergei 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 a service tonight germany france america or the u.k. have no issued a joint statement on the poisoning which they say was highly likely to be orchestrated by the kremlin it requests that moscow provide the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons with information about the navi chalk nerve agent program this comes following the british government's decision wednesday to take the return of tree set of measures against russia let me remind you what they are in an address to parliament promise to treason may announce the twenty three diplomats we're going to be expelled from the u.k. she said high level meetings for them all would be suspended also that included a visit from russia's foreign minister. was rescinded on t

with europe i mean certainly russia is not going to be part of the european union but i think russia definitely sees itself as part of the european civilization with everything that in it entails including human rights the respect for the rule of florida democratic institutions free and fair elections etc but coming back to that point of reagan of russia because i actually think that putin. may read a lot of. reagan thinking because he talks about that in his own way but he centrally his main point is that russia will only be respected when when it's strong it is only the strong russia that the west and the united states in particular could take seriously but the. letter question i'm not quite sure you said that this is the kind of pressure that the west should one but do you think this is the kind of pressure that the west can take yes i think it's our i think right now we're not there i mean right now i see a russia that's still struggling to figure out its role in the world and i think some of what vladimir putin has done is regrettable it's understandable but it's also regrettabl

has affinity to russia. and there's another party, that is how it's called, led by a highly controversial figure, who is in exile in moscow, that political party has some support in moldova and that is very much a russian political party. if you add together russian forces, then it's half of the political expect rspectrum in t the political potential. in the next election, there's a high chance of the russian power gaining a majority. if you look at the change of the electoral system being introduced, a mixed system. you tonight have to have a ph.d. in political science, when you have a fractionalized pro western right. and you have a strongly consolidated pro russian left, and in the form of one party, and the first system, the party is a front-runner. so, in that sense, russia, pro russian forces -- in the next election. therefore, if you add up the other avenues of russian power of influence in moldova and the church, and the ngo sector, it will create a perfect storm for russia to turn moldova back towar

so antagonistic towards russia. well they look at. her input and he is the president of a rising power i rising power is always opposed the most difficult thing for a rising power is to come to terms with those policies which are there so therefore they're bound to collide with powers like britain and america because they're becoming stronger and spreading the influence in the middle east and so on britain for one except russia is a leading power in the middle east and will play a very important road that together with iran and turkey as americans they're more concerned now with north korea and kim job room and so on subconscious mind is folks they're not really on russia or the middle east so therefore we have a situation now where russia can take take the initiative and when he when he talks about dialogue document don't goodness it takes two to engage in dialogue because i think somebody said was it wasn't proper said. two lovers you could only have love when both sides how we need to communicate and talk to one

and i have no loans with russia. i have nothing to do with russia. i have no investments in russia, none whatsoever. i don't have property in russia. >> it sounds like he has nothing to do with russia. those are his comments based on his own underpinnings. perhaps all the more reason why this document subpoena may be a scary thought. >> right, i guess if the president has no dealings with russia and has no dealings with russia the stash of papers will be extremely small, right. that was what you'd expect. none of us think that is the case. it seems they have dangled the prospect of that or loans in front of donald trump and he's been interested in having a trump tower built in moscow. and the question i guess for the special prosecutor and context of this investigation surrounding the 2016 election campaign is was there some financial misdealing between the trump organization and moscow that would have given moscow some kind of leverage over the trump administration were trump would become president, that could be a quid pro quo and that's one issue

beach presupposes a certain degree of politeness and having to please russia critics of russia haters both at home and within 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 britain 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've 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 vladimir 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 and

try to do it in russia and russia stopped them in the ukraine. guest: i worked for the central intelligence agency and i am fairly confident saying that the cia was not involved in this. from as af joining us venue. -- joining us from sylvania. -- from pennsylvania. caller: i was raised as an army brat in europe. there is one constant in my lifetime and that is many countries in the world, the europeans, the eastern europeans, the chinese, whatever seemed to hold on to history much better than us. we are driving every thing in society -- the white male this monday. the soviets. not the russians. if we want something done, it doesn't have to get done today or yesterday or tomorrow. they will wait 100 years. if you have something in mind, they wanted done. the chinese are the same way. they are very patient people. this is not out of the realm. this is something that is going on as far back as there has been the soviet. putin gave a quote, he still lives -- he looks like a modern man. he is a 1950's cruise ship. ruschev guy. guest: i think there is

russia insists that the u.k. has no evidence that is indeed the dilemma that london is in all right our moscow bureau chief you're a shadow on the story for us tonight from there you're in thank you very much we want to take this story now to the u.s. capital washington d.c. our correspondent claire richardson is there working that angle of the story for us going to you claire or so was the u.s. government expecting what happened today brant it's hard to imagine that they would not expect some sort of retaliation as soon as the white house announced that it was expelling russian diplomats we heard from the russian foreign minister that there would be some kind of retaliation what's interesting here is that this is exactly tit for tat we're seeing sixty diplomats expelled in exchange for the sixty that the u.s. kicked off they've also been given a week to pack their bags and get out of the country and it makes sense that we're seeing a tough response from russia because this was the toughest action we've seen from

highly likely that russia was responsible. after the break we'll have a special coverage of russia's presidential election. american fivefold human rights music corrupt notion take the example of yemen who sued to sell the genocide there were there going on then just look who is some fourteen who american and british.

at russia. of all 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 groups 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. 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 in any way what do what does the government want i mean obviously russia has and given any kind of evidence about this case forensic evidence i mean what in the world would be expect the russians to do and what do you think the sanction will be afterwards because you know. she's at a political mess ri

prime minister to resume pinning blame on russia for the poison attack on a former russian intelligence officer turned british spy claims are made and threats flaunted of course without evidence. crosstalk in the poison attack in britain i'm joined by my guest alexander make your us in london he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com also in london we have charles shoe bridge he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counterterrorism intelligence officer and in brussels we cross to any much shown she is a former british intelligence officer and writer or across time pros in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate alexander macarius i'd like to go to an article that you just recently wrote and the title is very telling to resume the now demands russia provide prove itself innocence and that's a very curious form of jurisprudence isn't it isn't it backwards what she's asking go ahead well that is exactly what she's asking because she's asking that by a certain specified time russia is supposed to say the pr

russia is not in a competition with the united states russia is simply trying to provide security for its citizens and to take away opportunities for the united states to attack it without all the great powers are in competition so i get home and look at how not going to run out of the many thanks my guest here in moscow this is the end of our broadcast segment stay with us for the extended version on our you tube channel see you next time and remember across. the plate for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money billionaire owners and spending to the twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else want to because i want to show what i think what i know about the beautiful guy great so one more chance with. the base it's minute. childes seemed wrong but old old just told. me you get to shape out these days you can stick out to it and in again trade equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to lo

russia is not in a competition with the united states russia is simply trying to provide security for its citizens and to take away opportunities for the united states to attack it without that he's put all the great powers are in competition so i don't think you get hung up going to run out of the many thanks my guest here in moscow this is the in of our broadcast segments stay with us for the extended version on our you tube channel see you next time and remember across. the far right and britain isn't just on the march it's taking violent murders actually i don't like the name of it claiming that you know you see those organizations which are all usually split into which we fear trade different names i'll give you that looks. a bit complex web of which are fashionable. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last turn. up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry suddenly i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breat

behave badly towards russia well at least we cut short the e.u. is bad enough when it's all they can do it and let me tell you you know from history all of the disastrous things that europe that did were done collectively look the napoleonic wars two invasions of russia. or was this too it's great they were all done collectively so when they say you know that we need a strong collective action all scrip okies their treatment all that was pages in european history court inquisition was done collectively to look at the e.u. of course please part of getting them all together getting the european powers together and forcing them to make decisions that there will be frequently not in there and that's what these latest sanctions for of course if we talk about specific european countries a number of european countries are not interested in worsening relations with russia it's not interested in traditional distinctions are you know when push comes to shove. how many how many countries would you because of course not for example because you know i mean eas

russia. so basically there was a strong reaction from the russians about the presence of the earth in the u.k. but what is interesting with fischer they requested the explanations about the plans of the britain to launch this cyber attack is this a real saber attack against the country it's the act of war. and first of all we didn't get the official answer to this note and some how to do is a good that let's say that topic disappeared from the british newspapers and from any statements from the in the parliament so basically i think that the british so i decided that was too much so two things r.t. and the cyberattack disappears from the disappeared from the british media. so this is this is the answer to your question what do you make of some of the terminology being used according to recent neighbors john. and she's used the words highly likely that got a lot of traction he today said when asked how certain he is that russia is behind this on a scale from one to ten he said nine point nine

the ties between russia and germany a severed as well when it comes to the trade between russia and germany it indeed picked up last year for the first time over the last five years the reason for that is that russia is finally recovering after a two year recession the g.d.p. last year expanded by one point five percent and the inflation reached its all time low two point five percent also their appreciation of the russian ruble resulting from the recovery of oil prices have has boosted the employers however it's still too early to say about the complete recovery over the mutual trade between two countries it can't has to be reached their progress is volume of eighty billion dollar is last year it only reached fifty billion ok but there has been some recovery and you marette to mention that the russian economy obviously took a hit because of the sanctions but it is covering so do those sanctions have make any sense to. yeah sure they do i mean it is not possible to say that they didn't heed russia's economy at all the heat was basically really have the first of all three sectors tha

changed russia will we continue teaching . please well you know that they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. of being there in the small boats next to the hard pool of ships and it's still. not known to. the little self to big fish already ninety percent of the dot need to fall in the collar. to conduct fifteen scoops seventeen tons true and they do it several times a day with the big fleets oh you get an idea why. we have to understand we could not stay still and just. be with this all the deal for you two hours. i'm doing this because i want the future world to future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. welcome to. see each other not say he won oscars called in space films are cult classics part of american consciousness now all over a stone's latest project was. to film an extensive series of interviews with russia's vladimir putin. i caught up with the director himself to talk about the experience i. have you with us today hope you're having a great trip in moscow has just got her

russia has complied and. just as has been done to us and very happy that our athletes will now complete complete with their proper uniform and with their proper fire. we also discussed the issue with russia based sport show host alan moore the believes the focus of anti-doping agency is one hour shift away from russia to their own countries they're trying to get back on which is good so because there are a lot of things that were still coming out so i think that in order to quieten things down a prayer for greater waves ahead in the sports ocean that russia needs to be brought back into the fold sort of basically they could calm the situation down a little bit right now there are dissenting voices there are people who are a little bit angry does too soon russia doesn't deserve it they would see it in any case and no punishment would be too harsh for russia in there from their point of view simply because as long as the russians are the bad ones there houses or even order but now we've got to start to look aro

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 to nikki haley she excuse 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 now from there he went on to be quite critical of how the u.n. security council meetings are being conducted and what does essentially

putin might service lifetirede fo russia. russia following the chinese example. the question i want to raise is, there is no scenario in russia of how to hand over power to the successor. peter: you are looking too far into the future. let's go back to the world cup. of vladimiris that putin will go on a charm offensive ahead of that. he will come knocking on western doors. how should the west, if we use that term, respond? christian: the west has to open the door. they have to try to improve the situation on the ground in the ukraine. thists a bit further in completely stalled peace process. there is window of opportunity in internationalolitics right now because mr. putin wants this tournament, he wants to be the host of many nations. peter: that poisoned former spy becomes a footnote of history? christian: not of history, but what else should western leaders do? their trying to grasp that chance, to start seriously renegotiatingt is on th table between russia and us. peter: is that realistic? gemma: i think that is realistic. if we look at the british -russian

with europe i mean certainly russia is not going to be part of the european union but i think russia definitely sees itself as part of the european civilization with everything that in it entails including human rights the respect for the rule of law democratic institutions free and fair elections that cetera but coming back to that point of reagan of russia because i actually think that putin. may read a lot of. reagan thinking because he talks about that in his own way but he centrally his main point is that the russia will only be respected when when it's strong it is only the strong russia that the west and the united states in particular could take seriously but the. letter question i'm not quite sure you said that this is the kind of pressure that the west should one but do you think this is the kind of pressure that the west can take yes i think it's our i think right now we're not there i mean right now i see a russia that's still struggling to figure out its role in the world and i think some of what vladimir putin has done is regrettable it's understandable but it's also re

they want to vilify russia when russia is really not our enemies. we get more people internal in this country and if we focus on people who have committed treason, like hillary clinton and people in the democratic party and stop distracting everything toward russia, maybe we could clear up a whole lot of problems concerning our country vital survival. we don't have to do it militarily but we can make compromises. host: we will get a response. guest: the leadership in russia wants to undermine western democracy and hours. in that regard, they see as as an adversary. i would characterize the relationship as a necessary one. we need to contact ourselves. guess we need to protect ourselves. -- we need to protect ourselves. it doesn't appear -- i don't think the russian leadership really want that kind of role. host: we are talking about russia/the u.s., our nato allies in the poisoning that took place. the history of this type of technique. our guest is jeffrey edmonds. we want to get your reaction from great written. first from the british prime minist

to independently verify the nerve agent used we have offered russia the chance to explain that russia has refused we have therefore conclude that the russian state was involved and we have taken certain measures in response in taking these measures we have been clear that we have no disagreement with the people of russia who have been responsible for so many great achievements throughout history. it is the reckless acts of their government that we oppose mr president we are grateful for the support of so many countries around the world we will come back to this council as the investigations make more progress and continue to keep you informed we have already heard the attacks and threats that russia has made over the past few days we know that there will be more to come this is how russia has acted in every other case where it is being caught flouting international law denial destruction and threats it is what russia does but we will not let such threats deter us we will not weaken our resolve we will stand firm confident in our democracy our rule of law and the freedom of our people

second russia of one's status quo sought russia of once didn't parity. if mr trump if president did mean business if he was really going to deliver a strike against moscow here m.s.e. war not their city who korea will but a mess of war was the most likely outcome there for any kind of reduction in tension is a good news for russia however talking about a possible negotiation for moscow well until recently it would be a good idea to have more. sells kadian summit or c. assignments a b. to b. in north korean leaders and u.s. president or western leaders it would be a good idea to have them in russia maybe the necessary in moscow where you are still because of on the full seated tour you can be sure or maybe in my native petersburg why 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 unfavorable attention well since maybe as a hundred fifty years since their anti communists fear a communist scare saw it to be probably a good idea if russ

and russia matters. they have played that fantastic ways in syria which is by all measures a modest footprint on -- for their military operation has had a dramatic impact on the country steering the civil war. also, showing russia can mount a meaningful expeditionary force. >> i think we have time for one more. let's go to the woman on the left. yes, you. >> we have not gamed out how the warfare escalates in cyberspace. is that you, andrew said that? yes. can you not hear me? >> yes. >> my question is, do we have a skill set to accomplish that and, if so, how are they deployed? andrew: everyone who works on cyber in the u.s. government says we don't have enough people working on that, nor do we have enough people who are technically qualified to do it. we have a lot of good people, but we don't have bot farms to give you an example. say, we are at the point of needing to acquire those skills. in terms of what i said earlier, about understanding and escalate -- escalahylus torry tory latter in something l

the media which is this narrative that russia is to blame for everything russia at the d.n.c. russians have to do a lot of things massive interference that american elections but if that's the case why didn't the d.n.c. let the f.b.i. look at their servers. it wasn't russia it was that it's not just in the facebook groups they're also there on the ground you know protesting and i personally made more me in this election about hillary clinton then the anybody in russia today i'm sure there'd be a lot of messages we can give that politicians out there but this is sorry this is just us and your social media feed may have been part of russia's interference in the election. and we started to get that key used as you know russian troll or russian but we were thinking ourselves we don't even speak russian that's the mass of america is being misrepresented see the world they're tied to the kremlin their russian is their puppet if we start to think ok they're really just trying to mess with us. they were chicken of the argument to try to just raise their voice what anybody who is payin

do you also think that russia has to make the first step i do think it should come from the other russia could make a proposal similar to the one the russian made when russia proposals coordination on military reaction in syria to the president of united states in that location america said yes to the coordination and then we moved from court of the nation to corporation and dies was defeated maybe russian should put to me till april pulls on counter terrorism global these days should be one of the priorities when president trump says there need to is obsolete is quite right well mr french and i have lots and lots of more questions but unfortunately we have to leave it there really appreciate your being with us and tear of us please keep the conversation going in our social media pages as for me hope to see you again same place same time here and i will to part. a party divided in with a clear message democrats face a fundamental dilemma. aggressives in the process. continue business as usual. losing. the police. who. are at risk from the very people who. are afraid of. you can see somet

no just not russia as well unless of course russia comes to its senses and stops assassinating or trying to assassinate people on british soil loads of people aboard about international politics in this country and don't really care one way or the other of course they care about the tragedy of a british police officer and so forth. is that way to resume could never have said that the england squad can't go to moscow i think it's not inconceivable that that made position may change so so far the prime minister has said no member the royal family will go prince william is president of the football association in this country a job i imagine he loads because we all know he can't stand for much happier on the polo pitch old chap but he won't be going no officials to be going so i'm sure that to me peter will be devastated that the sports minister tracey crowd would be terrified by that is killer possibles as well but there is talk of the possible that could be the end of two may not go and it would be it people say you can't involve sport politics hang on the british prime ministers were hea

russia failed to ensure syria destroyed is 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 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 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 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 different co

assertive russia is being aggressive he said well being careful not to blame russia for that for the scripts act we have to change the way in which we deal with it because we can't be pushed around by another nation what do you make of that. well of that i think we have to look at that in the round the reality is that defense spending in this country has been cut rather dramatically in recent years and it doesn't look to improve and and so to a certain extent he's doing what defense ministers do in terms of of lobbying for. a budget and certainly there are arguments to be made and important arguments to be made about. you know what russia has done particularly in the european space in crane you know obviously we've seen the rhetoric out of moscow recently with new missile systems and things like that so there are responses there is a degree of hyperbole to it when we hear things about you know the prospect of shutting down cyber networks energy systems and transport systems and other vital infrastructure in in the u.k. but what this all speaks to is on the one hand the recognition of

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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

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