news reports which are broadcast in russia that that's happening here so the reaction in russia is i would say very profound. steven cohen feel about the debate that was held in congress when john murtha veteran republican told his colleagues that somewhere and rest your right now president putin is laughing at us you do that no it's an absolute profound misunderstanding of who putin is and what he wants and i can speak with some authority on this because for quite a long time i've made putin and his leadership a special topic of my study putin came to power in 2000. in a country that had been ruined by the worst peacetime depression in history russia was in an economic ruin nation and putin's mission and he spoke about this often was to preside over russia's recovery at home. a men were dying at 57 years old at that time larry you and i would be pushing the daisies by now to the store to russia at home a lifestyle a a stability that had been lost in the 1990 s. and thereby reposition russia its true as a great power which has always been on the world stage that is been pollutants mi

russia against the e.u. and russia gives the or maybe not. but the. entity has to get some benefits out of them. and we see results unfortunately what happened in ukraine 5 years ago. on board just continue to happen now it's still logic stand brought up though this is psychology of course this is a problem for both russia and the european union as well and i remember personally my multiple conversations with the european friends and american friends in 1900 specially into silence when i tried to explain to them that. soviet union lost the cold war and the former warsaw pact states where. it was inevitable that they would go to nato or to juge western alliance but don't touch ukraine because ukraine is something completely different for russia and percy they never never bought my arguments in that same article that aired referenced earlier reach was published in july you also predicted that from now on ukraine will be encouraged to develop a less confrontational relationship with russia and well you know next week the russian and the ukrainian preside

what is russia wanting from these talks. well all conflicts at some point but are still a number of around. intractable at this point. that. would be expected to proclaim for. political figures and fighters and other others in the so-called blue guns people's republic. of ukrainian parties participating in a new type of elections that would be. those 2 republics self-proclaimed republics. of how they would be greeted under what terms they would be integrated into ukraine and how that would be perceived both russia and ukraine the question of concessions is quiet. quiet important not just for the for the ukrainian president. but also for. russia because. power in this. conflict is. too much and not being seen as a. sense russia of course is interested in. the 2 peoples republics remaining more. centered over the russian interests and the ukraine is more interested in them being completely political space and that that difference that. interacted. with her on that. expected. asians are not very high from their summit but the v

in russia clean. plates. one of the other queries that it's been discussed at the moment is the fact that russia says it is complied with everything that wada asked it to do it's provided all the data to show that they will. and that this ban should not go ahead i put that to the president of water this is what he told me. so to says it's going to appeal this decision russia says it's rejected all of the allegations of data manipulation it says it's provided you evidence to counter to show that it didn't delete the state it didn't modify the data what do you have to say to that and was that taken account in your decision well i wasn't part of the c.r.c. discussion but i do know. co-operation between the. true war conversations they had with for example the russian olympic committee. but those people who are interested are entitle to under the standard to appeal and if he wished to appeal the of 21 days to accept this assertion or not and if they wish to appeal then we will be in cash. well what maintains that

also this hour russia could be put on the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism that's a very new bill making its way through congress. and time magazine's person of think here in 2019 as products we take a closer look at the 16 year old climate change activists who some see as a hero and inspiration. for an alarmist and a hypocrite. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour an escalating diplomatic row has stepped up another level russia has expelled 2 german diplomats it comes in response to a similar move by berlin all amid a spout or a murder probe tell a quarter picks up the story. the russian foreign minister has given the diplomats and question 7 days to leave the country in a tit for tat response to the german government's decision when they themselves decided to expel 2 russian diplomats the german and busta has received a note of protest over the groundless decision to expelled 2 russian diplomats from berlin as a mere response to german diplomats m

for russia they are afraid of russia so much that the media. keep ties with the united states either the same time the more this. week would have also discussed what is really the united states because for all their disagreements. on president trump. critical of nato and. the way open to developing a relationship with russia but mr know to leave it for some other time because our time is up thank you very much for coming. i encourage our viewers to keep this conversation going in our social media pages as for me and the team. same place same time on worlds apart. all. community there are people who believe that it's ok. it's really hard there are no jobs and you see the kids. there's a lot of conflict within the game between the. close one. is good business the state of california alone makes $6000000000.00 a year of prison complexes you get so when you live where. you don't care. anything. nationwide strike up a pension reform plans with. a more and more expected over the next few days a correspondent was at the same. concern that forms can im

it's about russia. russia invading eastern ukraine so sometimes people say, well, i don't know about ukraine, i don't know that much about ukraine. well, our adversary in this is russia. all roads lead to putin. understand that. and so that was the ah-ha moment. >> as i mentioned we're going to talk this hour about how the impeachment process is going to move forward now, who's going to be writing these articles of impeachment, the prospect it may be more than one committee, how fast we might go here, how soon we might see the first votes. new reporting suggests that might be very soon. but stepping back a bit from that immediate process stuff, in terms of understanding the meaning of this historic day there are going to be articles of impeachment against this president and for what, right? there is one overarching point that i think is really insight now quite clearly. now that we can look back with hindsight, with clarity to see how we got to the point of president trump being impeached. and as nancy

policy toward russia. your testimony has a number of references to nato in your testimony, both written and verbal. how about start with the direct question. how important is it to the future of u.s. policy toward russia that nato remain strong? essential.say it is the strength of nato -- nato has been a cornerstone of our national security strategy since the 1940's and it is inconceivable what the world would be like if we had not developed that concept and supported it until today. nato has many priorities. it has been very helpful to the united states in the battle against terrorism, so it is not as if russia is the only priority. i take your testimony that nato remains very important and it remains an important element of u.s. policy toward russia. our nato allies say the same thing. a strong, vibrant, continuous nato is important in their own face-off vis-a-vis russia. >> i believe so. there may be variations of the intensity of the view. the closer you get to russia the more ardent that view is, but

possibly less people will visit russia from foreign countries because russia will not be able to host or mount international competitions is well that was the major people the people diplomacy. victory for russia the 20 teen world cup those who did attend those who weren't scared away by the propaganda that was being run nonstop before the world cup in russia. quite a few people away including british supporters knowsley empty empty scenes in their games in the world cup that's all part of this is well it's this is part of a campaign of isolation looking at the evidence looking at how this investigation has been handled by water looking at the role of gregory read chank go. clean to america to quote blow the whistle along with the developer of the software system i believe they're using for that database just looking at all of these factors together and then the confirmation by independent technicians that the database was meddled with. after i believe fled to the u.s. and could be wrong on that but that seems to be what reports are suggesting this doesn't look like it was a fair ruli

ratio in russia if you look at the ratings. you will find that russia is steadily progressing in the. global business of doing business by the world and so on so forth of course that has a lot of problems you know a number of big reforms that are underway these days for example the forms supervisory and the which is getting the regulations all the good lucian's that we still have and so on so course we're trying to do. you know a lot of stuff which will be making the environment even better mr ashton we know that you are a keen sports fan given all the latest headlines that have to do with the russian sport in the recent past how much are you worried about russian athletes well you know well that the you know active lifetime that it's. having on the global scene is way short so having such as toys of course make it painful for you to particular person because you know that your training corot getting a child so you can your use here is and then you have to wait it short period of time like any show way to write is also on the g

russia could put on the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism that's under a new bill making its way through america's problems. on time magazine's person of the year in 2019 is a great success and we take a closer look at the 16 year old climate change activist to some say is a hero and inspiration all others an alarmist and hypocrite. by that very good evening to you this is oxy international we start this hour with breaking news this just come in tuesday's mass shooting in new jersey that claimed the lives of 6 people including the attackers is now being investigated as a potential act of domestic terrorism motivated by anti semitism and hatred towards the police 2 shooters targeted a kosher grocery store on tuesday in jersey city the gun battle lasted for around 4 hours. in other news an escalating diplomatic route has stepped up another level russia has expelled 2 german diplomats it comes in response to a similar move by berlin wall amid a spot over a murder probe auntie's double quarter has the story. t

today's russia wants to forget about 1989. but three decades on, russia is reasserting itself. there are fears of a new stand—off with the west. the baltic has become one of the front lines of what feels like a new cold war. as russia pushes for greater influence, i ask its leader how he sees his country. i am on a journey that will take me back to 1989 and across europe, to find out what it was like for moscow to lose an empire and whether russia is building a new one. moscow — it is a city that oozes empire. from the skyscrapers ofjoseph stalin, to the residence of the czars. the message is unmistakable — this is a country with ambition. throughout its history, russia has had an unswerving belief in its own greatness. you can feel that inside the kremlin. this is stunning. look at this. this says power, omnipotence. this says empire. russia was built as an empire, russia has existed as an empire because the essence is we are great, we have to have areas of influence and we have to have buffer states between ourselves and the outside world. so this is an empire. but in 1

and russia pulled out of the i.m.f. treaty who wins over who had violated the terms things have been. escalating understand how awful these things are with your brand of the mill nuclear weapons both sides know where they are they can detect launches potentially intercept them with short range intermediate weapons there's no warning which makes both sides and europe protected by the i.m.f. panicky with these weapons it's better to press early rather than late i want we definitely don't want to see our continent 1000000000 back to being a battlefield or a place where. other superpowers confront themselves this belongs to a far away history. now another monumental agreement is in the law in the faso the speak the start treaty which limits how many strategic nuclear weapons a country can field and it's expiring in about a year which is why russia wants a new treaty in place but russia is ready to prolong the new start treaty as soon as possible before the end of the year without any preconditions so far no response from wa

in russia itself in the and i'm speaking now the people me very the people in russia who study the united states they're my counterparts russia they study the united states they interpret these charges against trump as being logged because trump ran and he was elected on a program of quote cooperating with russia in fact i recall vividly you and i doing an interview together and we were both struck by trump's promise that he would cooperate with russia at that time i guess it was 216 the cold war was heating up and that was unusual and i took the position with you know i was not a trump person that that was a good thing but in russia today and i follow this de lay on the on the television and in the newspapers there is this belief among the people who care about american russian relations that all this grief and all these charges against trump originated because he wanted to cooperate with russia in other words that these it originated with the enemies of what our generation mary used to call detente there is substantial truth in that i don't think it's the whole truth but that's the way

but russia has been forced to. adapt to a new economic reality where the ukrainian industrial enterprises that were part of the russian service the russian military industry defense industry. russia has now sensually been forced to provide to make its own defense enterprises take over from the ukrainian ones that they dealt with before 2014 russia has also had to build new railway lines around ukraine russia has also been basically felt it necessary to build this bridge due to crimea to connect the peninsula to the russian mainland so russia has definitely had to increase its expenditures in a new economic and a new jip political reality and this is certainly a long term situation the kremlin understands that and of course i would also agree with my colleague in london that the so-called crimea is ours except and it was a euphoric moment in 2014 when crimea became part of russia it was a euphoric moment from a new russian citizens and it was something that that. sort of new fides for a few years for several years u

consequences didn't matter and russia of course russia. suffered a lot from disruption of economic relationship but this by that we see that trade is growing so extremely strong nature a lot of go. and the same time you know for a very long. i cannot imagine any russian government to. repat over konami time. now you wrote recently that russia is now entering into the real post imperial stage in which it can finally a rest assured that ukraine georgia moldova will not be part of the e.u. and nato for the foreseeable future if the kremlin is indeed as sure of that as you believe why it is sticking to its guns and by that i mean insisting very have only on the autonomy of donetsk and lugansk as a guarantee you that that's not going to have. and. ukraine is a very special case it was from the beginning. there is no other territory no other country which would be dead there to russian minds and hearts as ukraine for just about minds and hearts or is it ultimately about security and security is perception as well if you perceive certain territor

and the monies may need to know what is up but russia.

and russia of supporting him. 8 years ago russia and china stood against intervention saying it would lead to chaos for which they were ridiculed it turns out they were right though no one likes to be reminded the russian strategy in libya is extremely responsible it has no geo political dimension and puts libyan interests at the forefront we are not on any side of the conflict. on paper front supports the g.n. a it is after all the un recognized government they've said flowery things called for peace hosted fruitless summits that led nowhere so it was strange when the g.n.a.t. came out an accused france of supporting a warlord. we are surprised that france does not support our government that is democratic but supports a dictator a few months after those words french weapons were seen in the hands of how stars forces advanced weapons things have become very serious serious enough to jolt an old school interventionist into action. 8 years ago the united states led the mob that bombed libya into oblivion they cheered and literally laughed when gadhafi was tortured to death by rebels ye

for russia president putin. with me in russia tens of thousands of tickets being sold for the passenger service. from moscow to the world places or to international my names you know you're welcome to the program the. following site slumped on russia's nord stream to european gas pipeline by the united states foreign minister sergei lavrov has spoken out saying there is no doubt the project will be completed. states so it will be finished despite all these threats i am convinced that 1st of all the europeans understand their commercial interests in terms of ensuring long term energy security secondly of course they were humiliated and the words we heard from the german side show that our european partners still have their self respect north stream 2 is the gas pipeline being built from russia to germany through the baltic sea at over a 1000 kilometers long it will be capable of transferring 55000000000 cubic meters of gas per year which translates supplying almost $30000000.00 high souls you are shit out of impo

policy towards russia. under president trump the united states has taken consistent action against moscow's attempts to undermine american interests and those of our allies and partners around the world. the united states will continue to use all of the appropriate tools of financial power including diplomacy to address in future any further such threatening actions from moscow and to advance and protect the interest of america and our partners as they relate to russia. as articulated in the president's national security strategy, americ america is in e period of great power competition and we must structure the policies accordingly. the administration's policy takes a realistic approach. russia is a determined and resourced competitodeterminate s although one with significant weaknesses those weaknesses hinder its ambitions. we do not seek an adversarial relationship with russia. we are open to cooperation with moscow when it aligns with our interests. but this administration will protect our national secu

has in russia. unfortunate -- we have 155 diplomats last than the u.s. has in russia. unfortunately, our residents have to wait for a consular interview if they want to receive a visa in moscow, more than 40 days in another city, more than 30 days in another city, and our american counterpart explained that as quotas were introduced, all their consular officers have departed. possibly that is the right of every party -- of every country to define the structure of their diplomatic mission. the bone,d to cut to and many consular officers have also left. however, in our case, in our situation there wasn't a single there was a longer wait for visa issuance. visas are provided with the same before thisbefore, unpleasant development in our bilateral relations. we believe it is of principal importance, content -- considering the important context between people, parliamentary and, cultural and sports and all kinds of things. the easier it is to travel for americans and vice versa the easier it will be to strengthen our partnership, as i have said. i will's bondeo: to that for

the one that remained in russia and the monies mean you know what is up but russia cut off access to its data base in 2016 while water claims data was being tampered with as late as january 29th blaming russia further significant deletions and alterations were made in december 28th seen and generally 2019 i.e. after the war the exco imposed a day to requirement these activities were concealed backdating of computer systems and data files in an attempt to make it appear that the morse code data had been in their current state since 2015 furthermore the command issued to execute the manipulations deletions and backdating what also deleted in the attempt to avoid detection of what had been done russian experts challenge the pause ability of the investigations findings claiming that such large scale tampering is simply impossible it was like and we can't do it we cannot deny that there were occurrences of copies of files being destroyed and other fast created but there were no deliberate manipulations this is the working condition of the database when every year the operator begins to wo

policy towards russia. would our allies see the same thing but a strong vibrant continuous nato is important in their own? >> i believe so. there may be variations of intensity. the closer you get to russia the more ardent of view is that i would support that. >> and i have no quarrel with the administration pressing the nato allies to not only feel the commitment and benefit from nato but also to contribute proportionately. i think that is a smart thing to do. i have a piece of legislation pending before the committee and a few months ago offered as an amendment to the energy related to go into the chairs request i hope that we may take it up in our next business meeting. it's a piece of legislation that would basically say this thomas would've been on no of nato's 70th anniversary to clarify that no president could unilaterally withdraw from nato that any withdrawal of the united states from nato that have to be accomplished either by a senate ratification, if the senate ratified the treaty, or through an

definitely had involvement in the american election russia was meddling in our election russia harvested american rage to reshape u.s. politics how the russians are trying to turn the tragedy to their advantage to target almost every major american social movement what the hell's the point at the target audience the troops that are supposed to protect america from that imminent russian invasion n.b.c. promises is coming any hour now if they american troops don't buy it but of course the brass has an excuse merican troops refusing propaganda shoveled down their throats for years actually get this the victims of russian machinations ha. there is an effort on the part of russia to flood the media with disinformation to sow doubt and confusion this is not only through discordant and implement torrie dialogue but through false narrative designed to elicit sympathetic views and here i thought it larry clinton calling half a countryman deplorable those was discordant or democrats calling republicans traitors was inflammatory i said this before and i'll say it again russia even if it wanted to c

and into a discredited theory promoted by russia alleging that ukraine rather than russia interfered in the u.s. presidential election. with the same corrupt motives president trump acting both directly and through his agents, conditioned two official acts on the public announcements he had requested. number one, the release of $391 million of u.s. taxpayer funds that congress had appropriated for the purpose of providing military security assistance to ukraine to oppose russian aggression in which president trump had ordered suspended. also, two, a head of state meeting at which the white house -- excuse me. a head of state meeting at the white house in which the president of ukraine sought to demonstrate continued support for the government of ukraine in the face of russian aggression. that's article i. that's what president trump is being impeached for. given that, given the way the president is being impeached for having done all those things to ukraine in and way that undermined our alliance with them and specifically their fight against russian aggression, which is, you know, l

or russia empire soviet union the. russian federation and the united kingdom they are stronger than these sensational influences but it was there have been big changes britain and russia on the same side of iran and then you helped negotiate but the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty which was the british government have long supported. you again on the british side on washington's decision to rip it up and destroy that treaty well yes 40 years ago i was part of the team that negotiated one of the. years that has brought to the top and into that relationship at the dangerous boarding to a european history and this was i and there it was as short i would say. agreement it. is a. lot. of contribution into the current current current world because it has diminished the threat and each year that it ceased to exist. we suggested a very simple think we suggested a moratorium or the deployment of any kind of. into intermediate range missiles in europe and my prep is unfortunate he has sent letters to this and to preside

russia and china. that seems right now not very likely because the chinese practices last week say that they don't want to take part in any such talks and even the west so sign up to an e.u. treaty that is going to limit their capabilities or their. next their plans and russia will not be pressing china to enter such negotiations so that seems to be dead then that mean there can be talk about i mean the chinese are not even telling even russians who are now if not allies the very close partners how many weapons they have a they're not giving any numbers at all if russia is not giving the number of tactical month strategic weapons the poor boy chinese are not telling of that any kind of weapons they have so that to begin with you have to have to know more west's sure how much they have to begin to talk and and bargain and then also under the answers novel happening what is out other countries pakistan india japan. are we looking at a multi arms party race some point in the horizon it's a possible deal o

but those wanting to come down hardest on russia are the u.k. and the us found to have been agencies want a complete and. ban on all russian athletes the u.k. agency though has its own controversies the heavyweight boxer dillion wide despite the presence of steroids in his sample and justification is that the levels were very low and not caused by any fault on white's part is don of looks at how double standards of his reign in this fit of anti doping. for years you national sports competitions have. been hijacked by the russians for decades it seems that russian olympic athletes have been secretly doping to gain a competitive advantage labrat doping system secret labs double agents helping russian athletes cheat their way to the medal stand at the olympics this is now pointing the finger at a whole range of sports in a former what a staffer told us today you know this isn't a bombshell this is a nuclear warhead the russia doping investigation has become the leviathan of sports scandals it's towering so high above everything else in fact it's ha

russia's president has opened a rare bridge linking crimea to southern russia the e.u. and ukraine have condemned it as illegal russia annexed the region from ukraine in 2014. and 62 planets outside earth solar system of been discovered by astronomers in the u.k. the planets are extremely hot making it difficult to determine the type of rock and surface scientists say with further research they could hold the key to unlocking the geology of planets in our solar system for veterans where the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story stations and so much of africa . is glad i'm here putin creating a new reality on the ground in crimea moscow and explained they're from ukraine in 2014 and russia as it's been under international sanctions but now the russian president has opened a direct train link to the peninsula so what does this mean for the future this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm still robin a new road and rail bridge now connects the crimean peninsula with russia the 4000000000 dollar transport link is the longest in euro

in russia you know we'll that russia is number 3 shareholder in the. bank for infrastructure development so it means that we are playing is all other partner in the bank you know the story of developing the infrastructure will that there is little free sources local for the vestments infrastructure globally and this bank was created to trade to at least partly to close that gap so we're working with the bank it's a normal project for the bank it's the deal in the russian so you know part of the global story here but if we take. in particular we do remember that during the russia africa summit billions of dollars worth of debt have been written off for african countries and here we have a sum of $500000000.00 so what is this just a matter of prestige a matter of testing boilers it will be a deal in the least and so we are working so this is the deal that is using this over embellish it but we will be working with company a slave question of always other companies to find more. interesting story to finance them finding coming from the asian bank who put

russia clean. plates well what it says in its investigation was the sale date was forensic and that investigation showed that the data it'd received from a moscow lobbying question had it believed to be tampered with this was that data from a moscow lab relating to information from 2012 to 2015 while the said that that was dated didn't match the data it into. sieved from the whistleblower which started this big scandal but what i went further and said during that time in moscow in 2808 experts say that they had also seen that all the data had been tampered with and that's why they've taken this decision from the date it received 145 athletes that they were able to pinpoint that had had a question mark over them we're not sure if they were in russia a lot but it said only around a 3rd of those athletes were currently active now of russian officials have a very different story to this they say that the data that was handed over. hadn't been tampered with that they had applied to all of the conditions

this is a ban against russia that protects the rights of russia not seats by allowing the re entry for major events to those that are able to demonstrate that they are not implicated in any way. by the noncompliance. the decision is designed to punish the guilty parties and send a message that it will not be tolerated it stands strong against those who cheated this system well protecting those who did not. to dish out communist sanction to the agency's robust investigative lee kept a privileged thief the vision of the compliance review committee and why this recently acquired ability to recommend meaningful sanctions via the young plus the compliance standard which was not available the last time was declared non-compliant these strains combined have enabled the executive committee to make the right decision at the right time. for too long russian go ping has detracted from clean sport the blatant breach by the russian authorities oversight as reinstatement conditions approved by the executive committee in september 2800 demanded a robust response russia has afforded every opportunity

russia when the time comes. however we are aware that russian athletes will be able to participate in major sporting events but they will have to participate and a neutral flag and that's of course if there is no cloud of suspicion over them we are waiting for a press conference now by border to find out more about that decision but it comes amidst a cloud a cast of a shadow over why decision itself with some scientists claiming that its own methods of flawed and its processes are all betray some scientists also saying that some of the substances that are on the banned list haven't actually been tested enough to actually see whether they should be banned or lot of claims and counterclaims be made we know that russia will have $21.00 days to respond to this decision by water if there is no decision after that point then this will go to the court of arbitration but at the moment we hear in the song waiting to find out more about water say in regards to this decision taken today to ban russia from international spo

trying to save his life russia's. police russia's national guard and even trying police were all instrumental in making sure that said there were no more casualties and they cleared the streets and made sure that nobody else had got hurt of course we spoke spoke to some of the people that were initial eyewitnesses in this incident and this is a what they told us and what i'm with them and he was sitting in a basement we're watching now when a guy came man who just going outside and he told us there was a shooting out i'm so an injured pos and he told us the engine had been dropped into a cafe well we don't know the details we were busy walk an obvious time to iraq to united which we do and yet it was scary to be fine without him and that there were shots being fired and people came running down the street i was at work at the time soon all the area was cordoned off some people say they saw people running across the street from the caffie so it was frightening really even the bomb disposal teams were deployed so we wer

russia didn't pack our democracy. the whole thing, and that's unexpected defeat in the last presidential election. we lost and we shouldn't have lost. from a star that has been the only argument that underpins the russian experience, conspiracy theory. and now thanks to investigation that the rest of us had to endure, that conspiracy or he had died. it was killed by robert mueller. and yet somehow it lives on in the steering accusations of her mindless public intellectuals and hair hats of the television anchor suite. you think people like that could be contrite and may be humbled after the mueller report came out and prove two years of hyperventilation wrong. no. they're more processed with russia than they've ever been. watch poor mouth breathing chuck todd go full joe mccarthy yesterday. >> the fact that russia was so aggressive did not exclude the fact that president poroschenko actively worked for secretary clinton. now if i'm wrong -- my goodness. senator kennedy, you now have the president of the ukraine saying

promote friendship with russia promising friendship with russia then the more active nationalist electorate by violence by pressuring on that one you're just a secular thank you very much alexander mackerras so enjoy the rest of your weekend our we're going to go to a short break and after that your break we'll continue our discussion on some real news stay with art. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. aura maybe in the shallowness. when there is only johnson. i just got out of prison for. 41 yes. 73 and so. i got a rest to. go on like this every day was taken out of. my working moms. and it looks a little bit about. that . time. to go. to try to get. snow. welcome back to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some real news. and now to nicosia where we're joined by alex christopher he is the director and writer

following sanctions on russia's nord stream to the european gas pipeline by the united states foreign minister circular for off a spoken saying there is no doubt the project will be completed when the states so it will be finished despite all these threats i am convinced that 1st of all the europeans understand their commercial interests in terms of ensuring long term energy security secondly of course they were humiliated and the words we heard from the german side show that our european partners still have their self respect. nord stream 2 is a gas pipeline being built from russia to germany through the baltic sea i dove 1000 kilometers long it will be capable of transferring 55000000000 cubic meters of gas per year and would supply almost $30000000.00 arseholes eager to the reports now on how europe has defied washington to get affordable russian fuel washington has weaponized sanctions it's official along with spending on nukes the army and cyber sanctions in the u.s. 2020 military budget it started in mission for the year the elimination of one of russia's gas trees into europe c

housing russia. unfortunately, our citizens have to wait if they want to receive for it 300 days, and it's about 40 days that is more than to take part the counterparts explained that as the quarters were introduced. possibly that's the right of any country to fund the diplomatic mission. we also had to cut two the bone and however in our case come in our situation, there wasn't a single case. they are provided in the same deadline and it's a principled importance considering the context between people with parliamentarians and all kinds of exchanges. the easier it will be to it'll o strengthen our partnership as i have said with a certain perspective. >> to respond to that for just a moment, we count a little bit differently. i don't want to get into the weeds on the numbers that we measured has how many diplomats. but what's important is that we make sure we are delivering on behalf of the country is consistent in the vienna conventions and the relationship between the united states and russia. we

russia or china? >> except for the fact that mueller and the committee run by republicans, russia is the one trying to undermine the democracy. i'm not saying china is blameless -- >> tucker: could it be because they have overseen the greatest sellout of the americas? i would say that richard burr is part of the problem and i would say more broadly that what you see in the past 20 years as a systematic betrayal of america beginning with china's admission into the wto where our entire duck industrial sector collapsed. a small number of people got rich doing it and they've never been punished and they should be. if it includes republican senators, good to. >> and i'm saying everyone in the republicans establishment is pointing fingers. >> tucker: because they are stupid and corrupt. joe biden is still pulling at the top of the democratic race, why is that? some amazing and baffling sickness from joe biden which thankfully are hilarious. don't miss it, we will be right back. here, it all starts with a si