putin is not just engaging with the west. putin liberals in the west. his a populist, nationalist, orthodox. he believes in sovereignty and as opposed to liberal institutions, and he is forging alliances with people in the west -- this is not a fight between russia and the west. this is a fight between liberals and liberals -- between liberals and illiberals. this is a fight within countries, not just between countries. to matteo salvini closer putin or joe biden? donald trump closer to sell beanie, audubon, and putin ?han joe biden or angela merkel when you ask those questions and see what russia does in many different dimensions to create what i call this alliance of the iberal international, i think we have to stop thinking that the west is united in how we think about putin internationally. public opinion shows putin's popularity among the republican party has surged in the last four years, and ideologically, there are things that some americans are in greater solidarity with putin and his ideas than the kind of liberal democratic ideas that we some

which did you feel was the better option for those who oppose putin? well, i personally thought it was better to go there actually and vote no, because i feel like if you are not participating in the elections at all, you arejust giving up from the very beginning. although i am acknowledging the fact that this election was rigged from the very beginning, i feel it is still useful to at least try and resist when you can. as one of the most high—profile opponents of mr putin to come out of russia in recent years, do you acknowledge that mr putin does command the support of a pretty clear majority of the russian people? the respected levada institution, which does polling in russia month on month, at the moment they say that their polls show he has about 60% support amongst the russian people. do you accept that? well, it's a little bit tricky to make gains in any territory in any state. it is a bit like being in nazi germany, when everybody wants hitler. if you are saying no, then you are killed. right now one member of pussy riot is injail and possibl

because they are really fed up with prudent. —— vladimir putin. they started to use hit the streets a few years ago and it was a big surprise for all of us including me to see 1a, 15 years old kids on the streets fighting with riot police. and could be really problematic because they can't leave police stations without their pa rents police stations without their parents if they are arrested. it's a sign of hope. and it means thatjust a question of time when putin will be overthrown. because they are becoming the majority, they are becoming the majority, they are becoming the majority, they are becoming the people who will decide how our country will see the future. right? | how our country will see the future. right? i have nothing butjust words of encouragement to them. go, go, good. well, with that word from you we have to end this interview. but i thank you very much indeed for joining me from your undisclosed location. thank you very much indeed. thank you so much. good morning. we're halfway through 2020. it's supposed to be through the midd

putin staying in power for a very long time. preliminary resultsow in russia verwhelming approval for keeping the president in place. [sirens] katty: clashes and arrests on the streets of hongijong after being imposes its new security law on the territory. israel's plan to annex part of the west bk has stalled for now. we will look at why. >> i don't think at myself as a revolutionary. katty:er she's cons the princess of black poetry. weighing in on the killing of george floyd and the black lives matter movement. ♪ katty: welcome to "world news erica" on pbs. vladimir putin casts a shadow on global affairs. according to results fm today' referendum in russia, he will be there for decades more, until 2036. the united states will have carried out four presidential elections between now and then. our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg has the story. steve: in rushing -- russian polling stations, will number one, put on face masks and gloves. if you are vladimir putin, ignore rule number one. the president is changing russia'sit

putin. president trump has released a joint statement with vladimir putin, directed the purchase of faulty ventilators, and withdrew from the open skies treaty, a critical part in monitoring russian activity. he also ordered the reduction of troop presence in germany, an act met with rebuke and criticism from our allies, but was praised from the russians. he even wanted to expand the g7 to include russia again, which was expelled from the group in 2014 following prudent's illegal putin'son ash putin -- illegal annexation of crimea. this issue is not without precedent. in 2011, the obama administration discovered pakistani officers ordered to attack. how did the obama administration respond? secretary clinton and chairman of the joint chiefs contracted -- confronted pakistani officials and publicly shamed them even though we were relying on them for access into on thestan, they called intelligence agencies. white house officials stood up for americans and the troops in harm's way. administrat

with vladimir putin, never, but he absolutely has told us about conversations with vladimir putin. he says he has -- he says he's told us. today he wants to hide behind the idea that he absolutely never does that. he never does it. who could ever forget donald trump describing how vladimir putin told him very convincingly for donald trump that russia did not interfere in our presidential election. >> i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >>> leading off our discussion tonight former director of the cia. he is a senior national security and intelligence analyst. also with us democratic congressman jason crow, colorado. one of the seven house managers of the impeachment trial of donald trump in the united states senate. director brennan, let me begin with you. we finally got the question about his discussion with vladimir putin and of course the answer was we don't ev

they understand what putin is up to. they can be very helpful in providing a heads up to the president and to this country about what putin is trying to do. but, no leader, no leader can act responsibly for this country without good intelligence . that's the bottom line. specifically i think it's important to suspend the actions to redeploy forces from europe . this is the wrong time to be moving forces out of europe and again, it sends ibelieve a message of weakness to russia . we have to finally rededicate ourselves to the values that make america strong and free. at the end of the day what putin fears the most very frankly is our values area they threaten the power he's trying to consolidate, freedom of the press, freedom of speech. equality of all citizens, all of that other minds the strength that he is trying to assert in russia. the greatest threat to putin is the values that are our greatest strength in this country . let me conclude by saying the united states has to be clear with putin. it cannot afford to send

putin. when you talk about how do you empower diplomats to talk to each other, how do you empower kind of actual security professionals or sort of the uniformed military, the people who speak the same tactical language on our side it's implicitly clear that you got to clear politics out of the way to some degree because it everything they say to one another become subject to the scrutiny of american politics they can't say anything and you know that better than anybody. on the russian side there's another problem and that appears to be vladimir putin, the image and reputation he has, the system that iran's. it just doesn't seem like there's a lot of room and there's no oxygen for anything but putin and his agenda. how do you understand negotiating with putin's russia, dealing with putin's russia versus dealing with russia as such? >> the difficulty that we have everybody knows and you got a lot of people writing about this very eloquently and university or can in the blogs is this fusion of

waiting president determines putin. 60% with the president shouldn't be as old as putin is and only 25% of the russian people trust putin's plan for the country. if this is not demonstrate that putin study failed, i don't know what does. what you think secretary panetta for joining us today. with that i will yield back to you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. i will now introduce our witness and again thank you for being here again today. secretary leon panetta is chairman of the institute for public policy, testing script finished before in public service includes serving as 23rd united states secretary of defense, the director of the central intelligence agency white house chief of staff to president bill clinton, office of management and budget director and most important as a of the u.s. house of representatives from california. i will not recognize the wages for five minutes, without objection your prepared a written statement will be made part of the record. you are now recognize for your opening statement. >> at i don't know if your muted or not, secretary. >> how is that? can you

putin's estate system. it has been his personal project and his legacy and the construction is right away. i am personally livid with this construction and the system has consequences. newsew ideology, bad borrowed from the soviet and pre-soviet past and most importantly, the personal rule is not constrained anymore by anything. definedconstitutionally omnipotence. era and closing the old closing the modernization efforts and what is interesting is the fact that he does not necessarily want to extend his rule forever. he wants to prepare the system to transfer to another of families and he wants to create the fear that the dismantling of his own rule will unravel this. time, drama as always in russia per putin and russia itself. wants to write in history to control the past. he faces essential challenges for himself, russia and the ruling group. firstly, vote last week was crazy. himself angry that consists of political liberals but of nationalists, left-wingers. secondly, putin has failed to resolve the co

president vladimir putin is probably the only person who came to this moscow polling station without a mask. today is the last day of the russian wind vote the kremlin even declared a bank holiday so that as many people as possible could take part. the constitutional reform has already been legally approved by the country's national and regional parliaments and to a public vote to validate the move they have made men's provide for many popular social changes including regular pension increases and a minimum wage but they'll also allows a lot of new putin to continue running for president theoretically he could remain in the kremlin till 2036 this man voted no he says i don't need a new czar i like it because i'm afraid of change whenever things change in russia we end up worse off than before. and you. at some polling stations voters were only required to show their passports election observers were not allowed complete access and while voting was still in progress the 1st results were published with the procedure is highly questionable the voted self the whole process was invented s

vladimir putin is almost like donald trump's new dad. it really makes you understand why putin is so -- it is so easy for him to use trump, because trump essentially is filling the same role for putin that he did with his father. >> you know, i have always said i would be much more interested in interviewing donald trump's parents than donald trump because i want to know how this happened and this is the book that tells us that. >> yes, yes. >> you also got something very interesting from mary trump when you raised the question of, you know, donald trump doesn't have his father to protect him anymore like he used to, and that's what's exposed all of his problems now. let's listen to that. >> is donald trump's main problem now that he doesn't have somebody like your father that can make him look successful? it's just him, and he's actually not capable. >> my grandfather? yes. that's one of his main problems. although, he does seem to have found his roy cohen in bill barr so, you know, that's something that should concern us greatly. more

how do we replace president putin? the interesting thing is that russia has not been able to do that. we talk about the strength of president putin. i think it's also the weakness that is actually proving so difficult to replace him. there's a law maker in the uk that used to say the first thing i want to know about a politician is how do i get rid of him? russia is struggling to do that. listen to more of our conversation with president putin's right hand man. i asked him why is president putin the only man who can lead russia. are we saying russia, a country of 114 million people, that there is only one man who is capable of leading the country? >> russia is a country of 114 million. we're a very talented people. i have no doubt that we have thousands and thousands of very talented politicians that in the future would take this competition and will lead the country to the future. currently every time we have presidential elections, every time, people vote for putin. every time he gets the overwhelming popularity, ove

for president putin. the parliament has approved the amendments and actually the constitution has been on sale here the new constitution for several weeks already but this vote was important for vladimir putin to show that he has the public's backing after all this vote and these amendments determine his political future since he was reelected putin was reelected president in 2008 and 18 the debate here in russia between political observers has been how he might stay in power and if he doesn't stay in power who he might hand over power to so in a sense this amendment this these amendments to the constitution and this vote kind of decide that whole question and some observers say that this vote was actually rushed through now because surveys show that trust and bloody mir putin is falling and the lockdown measures over the coronavirus here in russia have hit russian the russian economy hard and this vote in a sense is kind of referendum on putting himself so it was important to hold it now . we understand

and president putin hope to kick start the economy this year but how will he pay for his big plans amid low oil prices and the pandemic. xi jinping as china has put aside the niceties of economic power for a more aggressive posture to neighbors and liberal democracies president trumps america 1st policy triggered a trade war that morphed into a technological war but china's security measures to rein in hong kong and human rights violations of wiggle muslims have pushed the u.s. to sanction chinese officials responsible for the policy and more sanctions could be on the way as the new bamboo curtain comes down after 20 soldiers were killed in hand to hand combat in disputed territory in the himalayas india banned more than 50 chinese apps including tick-tock new delhi accused beijing of infringing on its national security by moving soldiers and artillery to the disputed territory in lead back or that led to the worst conflict between the 2 nuclear neighbors in 60 years australian prime minister scott morrison is call for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus prompted beijin

isn't that enough to challenge putin over the killings of u.s. soldiers? >> we supplied weapons when they were fighting russia, too. when they were fighting with the taliban in afghanistan -- >> that's a different era. >> i'm just saying, yes. i'm just saying we did that, too. i don't know -- i didn't ask him about that. he was there for a long time. didn't have great success because he was there before me and then ultimately i made a change. >> you heard that, right? it is well known in the intelligence community. that they're arming the taliban, russia. >> when you say arming -- >> supplying guns. russia is supplying weapons and money to the taliban. >> i have heard that, but it's never -- again, it's never reached my desk. >> i mean, he said it on the record when he was in -- >> russia doesn't want anything to do with afghanistan. let me just say about russia. russia used to be a thing called the soviet union. because of afghanistan, they went bankrupt, they became russia, just so you do understand, okay? the last thing that russia wants to do is get to

the people around putin are all multibillionaire. they have yachts, they go to court sucker they have a wine collection in switzerland. their kids are starting in london. and i would personally welcome the foreign secretary with the magnitsky list with the city human rights abusers falling on the example of u.s. congress. but i think we can go so much further. and we kind of need to recognize that russian influence isn't necessarily done by generals wearing military uniforms with epilepsy. it's done by rather charming people who speak fluent english were oligarchies, who are businessman who read the same novels that you and i read and it is deceptive. the goal is the same and so i think london could do an awful lot more and just lastly i would say, i worked on a lot of quite important investigations where the new york times and other international partners i did the panama papers, we found so many people in putin circle who had offshore structures, but being helped by british professionals, who set them up, and if we are serious abou

bosom bull he's done putin starts august 3rd on d w. this is state of the news line from berlin and there's no let up in the wave of protest in russia's far east thousands of people rally in the city of coveralls following the rest of their governor on murder charges they say he's guilty only of defeating the ruling party's candidate in the last election. tensions escalate between washington and beijing u.s. officials entered the chinese consulate in houston texas after forcing it to close amid accusations of espionage china retaliation shutting down an american consulate in chengdu. and thousands demonstrate in good of passion for media freedom after dozens of journalists hungary's him a new shot resign in protest at the shacking up there editor in chief. i'm michael okuda appreciate your joining us protesters in the city of cover off skin the far east of russia have taken to the streets for the 3rd weekend in a row tens of thousands of people are calling for president vladimir putin to step down and demanding the release of the region

about whether politicians have given up speaking truth to power and in the week of that it may have putin's fundamental constitutional referendum victory across a 65 percent passed her mouth in the russian federation is russia really a democracy at all we speak you know and he praised author of the putin paradox professor richard stockwell told us of all coming up in today's going underground but 1st the most famous publisher in the world julian assange and wiki leaks turned 49 in a london high security prison yesterday despite having been convicted of no crime and the united nations accusing the british government of torturing him and its global demonstrations against the u.k. government's human rights record prime minister boris johnson chose this week to attack china over human rights we stand for a group of obligations and that is the sound of space bases for our international relations and be an absolute position of this national security law constitutes a clear and serious breach of the sign of british joint declaration so what is the coronavirus recovering british prime minister goin

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muslim beliefs trump and putin starts august 3rd on d w. a. i don't think he understood what he was doing and why talking to big guys you know i think guys get together and they do big guy things but you did accept it for 17 months didn't you why so long the principle way you remove a president is by the law actions not by ph 4 months to go to the presidential elections in america donald trump is sinking in the polls and now his former national security adviser says he isn't fit to be president anyway in a new book john bolton a long serving big beast of the republican party accuses mr trump of a litany of incompetence and obstruction of justice mr bolton is my guest this week from washington how much damage have trumped al bolton done to america and the rest of the world. john bolton welcome to conflict zone. i had to be with you thank you for having when you became donald trump's national security advisor you wrote that you thought you knew what you were getting yourself into it's not strew why work for and give your loyalty to a man labeled

putin? tell me that it's not true so at least you can read that out to the american people to say i am defending our soldiers abroad, america. i am going to bat for you. and i just really cannot understand why president trump can't do that simple act. >> at this point in the trump-putin relationship, when you look at that read-out today, i think we know what they didn't talk about. i think we could be pretty sure they didn't talk about intelligence reporting about vladimir putin trying to kill american soldiers. what do you suspect they would be talking about now? >> well, if you read the russian side, it's all happy talk, right? >> yes. >> it is a demonstration that they're cooperating on the pandemic, the global economy. then the only substantive thing i saw was a discussion about arms control. but then again on the policy front there, there is a new start treaty. it is going out of date next year. to me it is an absolute no brainer that we should just extend that treaty. but instead, the

putin looks at the 2020 u.s. election, how does he size up these two alternative american futures and what would be your advice to whoever takes the oath of office in january of 2021 on how to deal with this? >> putin is looking to see what he can get out of it, no matter who it is. clearly, he wants to have a weaker u.s. president, doesn't matter who. and he'll be looking if that's the case. because the more that the u.s. is bogged down in its own internal contradictions, the weaker the president is domestically, but also perceived internationally, the less likely it is for the u.s. to try to restore a leadership role. he wants to basically have a fairly diminished, you know, wubs president, no matter who it is. >> jeremy, even trump's allies admitted in some reporting in "the washington post" this weekend that trump is, indeed, diminishe diminished. >> yeah, nicole, so 12,000 troops out of germany, half may be redeployed around europe, but half will come, half will come back to the united states, which means pa

if he doesn't confront putin over the russian bounty payments, putin has no reason to stop and that puts american lives at direct risk. and any entry level intelligence analyst would tell you if president trump doesn't stand up to putin when it comes to keeping americans safe, putin has no reason to take president trump seriously on any other issue. playing field is so uneven. >> right. the leverage is just lost. as i mentioned, you work for the obama -- you worked for the obama administration and handled intelligence. again, the president insisted in his interview that he does read the pdb and the intelligence never reached his desk because u.s. intelligence, he said, quote/unquote didn't think it was real. what is more essential for the commander in chief than protecting the lives of u.s. service members. that's my question. >> well i can't think of any bigger priority than keeping americans safe. but we've seen president trump consistently disregard or fail to digest intelligence on that issue. we have reported this was in the presidential daily briefing not to mention the fact that w

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other things with putin. maybe talking about how, like in russia, he doesn't have to have an election this year and getting advice from putin on how to avoid one. but clearly he doesn't see it as his responsibility to say to every american family do not worry when your son or daughter is at risk if their lives have been threatened and i will be there to protect you. that is one subject he does not feel he has a responsibility to discharge in his conversations with putin, and that is absolutely historically irresponsible. >> joe biden has been rolling out his economic plan, which he, of course, recognizes is the other side of a public health plan to get control of the coronavirus first, then try to build an economy. we got shocking numbers today about what the job will be if joe biden is the next president with gdp dropping 32.9%. that's a number you never expected to hear in your lifetime. what would you be telling joe biden and your colleagues about how you think we have to dig out of this economic hole? >>

so does that mean it had to be putin? it could have been someone else with access to -- >> come on, come on, you're not going to engage in an act of nuclear terrorism in downtown london without the knowledge of the office of the president. >> today we begin the open hearings in the inquiry into the death of alexander litvinenko. >> reporter: in january 2015, a public inquiry opened in london. it was a victory for marina, who along with her attorneys fought an eight-year legal bat toll make it happen. on the opening day, her attorney argued the evidence leads to one disturbing conclusion, which litvinenko himself reached before he died. >> mr. litvinenko came to the awful realization that he had been the victim of a political assassination by agents of the russian state. >> reporter: an expert witness testified the polonium that killed litvinenko could only have come from russia. president putin's spokesman declined our request for an interview. and in march 2015 putin gave lugovoy a medal, the order of merit to the father

i wouldn't argue that putin caused these results. there were numerous other factors, but the point is, we have a very narrowly contested result, a sort of 50/50 scenario and a troll operation by social media bots sitting in st. petersburg. you have a sort of russian intelligence officers based in london running around, leazing with senior figures of the leave campaign, and also the unanswered question of financing. all sides deny wrongdoing, but there's a genuine question raised by mps, british mps and other about the covert funding of the leave campaign. it was a pretty potent combination. i would just say one other thing, which is that my frustration isn't as a investigative journalist. the ambassador is right. it's perhaps too early to tell how much influence there has been, but in britain at least, we have not had a kind of proper reckoning. we haven't had a full interrogation of what happened in 2016. we're expecting with great curiosity this russia court tomorrow from the security committee, but to be honest, the way i see is t

. 0ver result is always vladimir putin. over the past 20 years, vladimir putin and his former kgb associates have agreed a tacit bargain with the russian people. you get a strong state, we get rich, you lose some freedoms, but you gain some stability. it is, perhaps, an understandable deal, given all that russia has been through but the trouble with a strong is this: he is stable until suddenly he is not. one of the symbols of world opera, la scala theatre, in milan, has announced it'll reopen more than three months after it was closed due to the coronavirus emergency. music. four live concerts will be held betweenjuly 06—15, with a full resumption of events in september. there will be reduced artistic formations on stage and a maximum 600 people in the 2,000 capacity hall. spectators at la scala will be asked to observe all health protocols, including wearing masks until they reach their seat. the concerts will lastjust over one—hour and there will be no interval. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @ sallybundockbbc.

with chants of freedom and putin is a thief the protests have become a battle cry of freedom freedom from the rulers sitting more than 6000 kilometers away in moscow whom they see as self-serving and out of touch. off the scent of moscow sucking up all the resources from the far east and we get nothing in return this region used to be so rich people were doing so well and the production was thriving now all the big enterprises have been bought up by muscovites people in the most genuine sprawled on the. just watch them put in the appointment of a successor hasn't helped that's even though michel dictatorial and member of the same party as for gold was seen as an attempt by the kremlin to assuage locals anger if you get it so that the people of cuba have fired back saying the 39 year old outsider lexx experience and has no connection to the region. anger against putin ism is rising across eastern russia and there's no sign that the protests will fizzle out as moscow hopes although police have so far left the much as in peace moscow has a habit of coming down hard on dissent. journalis

services were the moral equivalent of what putin said on behalf of russia. was another aspect of it and i felt that this was an extremely serious defect in trump's performance on the investigations of hawk bags c.t.e. weiwei and others i spoke with the counsel to the president spoke with the attorney general really it's their domain to take a look at and i say in the book that they were troubled by this is that this is the ukraine case that everybody is familiar with that was the kind of last issue that i dealt with before i resigned it's become the most famous but my point really was it was only one in a series chumps pacu you said looked like obstruction of justice as a way of life which you said we couldn't accept but you did accept it for 17 months than 2 why so low well you know a pattern by definition is something that doesn't emerge all at once. and the personal dilemma that anybody in a senior position faces is the knowledge that you're not going to prevail on every issue i like to say i was the national security advisor not the national security sit

putin poised to keep power for a very long time. early official results in russia show apparently overwhelming approval for keeping the president in place. the white house insists claims that russia paid bounties to the taliban to kill us troops are unverified. the us strikes a deal to buy almost the entire world supply of a drug that helps recovery from covid—19. hello and welcome. if anyone in hong kong was wondering what china's new national security law would mean, they didn't have long to wait. protesters took to the streets on the first day of it coming into force, and hundreds of arrests soon followed. the majority were for public order offences, but a handful came under the new legislation which carries a potential life sentence for crimes such as calling for independence from mainland china. john sudworth reports. 23 years after china took control of hong kong, it was an anniversary marked with tear gas and arrests. familiar scenes, but the stakes for protesters are now so much higher with the new national security law in

well i don't have a habit on 2nd guessing president putin. i don't know what putin meant. if you once he will tell you if you doesn't. smoke is altoona thing about the inner workings of this administration but from this little little bit of information we are glimpsing something about the workings the inner workings of the bomb administration and it's pretty apparent that they are bomb of ministration allowed itself a lot of things that it later tried to prosecute the trumpet ministration for i mean. general flynn's conversation with ambassador keyes slack he got he went to jail for that but this is something greater magnitude you know and i married essentially engage in a grand bargain with russia well yeah this is this is this is typical you and your political is going to pull the strings that you're going through maybe during your sell. out of the game you know it's a despicable disgusting but that's the political sausage just me can i ask you a specific question about the game of politics and the game of propaganda because a few days ago the new york times came out wit

in the past 72 hours russia amidst a pandemic voted in favor of president amir putin's biggest shake up of the constitutions in 1903 and his russian relations with nature nations remain tense it comes as no surprise that its main stream media is focused on the extension of a presidential term despite the reforms package containing over 140 amendments joining me now assume from canterbury is a professor of russian and european politics and author of the putin paradox reza richard sakwa thanks so much richard for coming on i'm going to say there's wall to wall us coverage of the kremlin putting bounties on u.s. soldiers heads in afghanistan here in the u.k. we've got continuing coverage of a russian quasi control of major nation politicians and now this referendum which is being ridiculed widely right across nato countries what's really happening as always it's a mixed bag quarter to show you are free and certainly as a political exercise it was impressive i personally have always been a constitutional conservative and though i can understand why a change just a constitution took place

putin poised to keep power — for a very long time. early official results in russia show apparently overwhelming approval for keeping the president in place. the white house claims the intelligence reports that russia paid bounties to the taliban to kill american troops are unverified, even a hoax. the united states strikes a deal to buy almost the worlds and tire supply of a drug that helps people recover from covid—19. and fees for the brazilian wildlife as the number of forest fires in the amazon rise over the past year. hello. if anyone in hong kong was wondering what china's new national security law would mean, they didn't have long to wait. protesters took to the streets on the first day of it coming into force, and hundreds of arrests soon followed. most were for public order offences. some were arrested under the new law which carries a possible life sentence for crimes such as calling for independence from mainland china. john sudworth reports. 23 years after china took control of hong kong, it was an anniversary marked wi