that's why i can believe in these accusations of russian hackers. >> tonight state sponsored russian tv is pouring praise on president vladimir putin, calling him a master of rhetoric, a more skilled negotiator than president trump. >> putin's diplomatic power play over president trump at the helsinki summit was a pivotal moment that reverberated around the world. >> he showed he was not willing to stand up to the russian leader. and tonight foreign diplomats are saying for the first time in 70 years they cannot depend on an american president. >> but putin's show of intellectual force in helsinki was not just about trying to prove his dominance over president trump. >> vladimir putin doesn't care about donald trump. vladimir putin doesn't care about the republicans. vladimir putin duoesn't care about the democrats. he hurts america. he hates the united states. he wants to create problems and trouble here. >> he wants to see western democracies in crisis, in chaos mostly say they can't challenge him. >> vladimir putin is one of the most powerful men in the world, and he has forced hi

things that old russian speaking people should leave the crimea all russian language should be just. crimea of course the people who were living there they decided to change their just to belong it's a consenting rusher of georgian relations into cells and a it was very painful of course first of all it's difficult for me to say that but. let's say i'm brave enough to say that yes there was a main just person who begin a war really gave the order in russia. there's absolutely no love lost for mr secretary in russia but i think people now can appreciate that he never went as far as cutting the ties by the thing so maybe it was not so we's the bull. it was no so just both for many russian people but russia really enjoyed was successful to create absolutely untrue russian feeling especially in generations so he was trying to do this. yes fortunately not fortunately so what is very important to say yes of course you mention recognition of a president. this was a very painful for me and for georgia for the country and for the people i think it was a mistake from russian side i think it wa

i would do a song in russian and the audience that doesn't speak russian still responds. >> runs and operates shopping malls and fashion brands and restaurants. including co-owning nobu with robert de niro. so he's a pretty interesting character to begin with. >> and how amon led to trump takes a detour through the world of beauty pageants, miss universe. >> amon and i went to meet with the miss universe organization in manhattan. and about getting a co-star for a video. >> and they asked for the most beautiful woman in the world. they also had a conversation about where the next miss universe contest would be. >> and amon says why not moscow? my father and i own this big concert hall in moscow. why don't we do that instead? he went, let's do it you'll have your concert. rob will torg and that's it. >> the idea went all the way to the top of the miss universe organization. to donald trump. >> donald trump loved the idea, said -- make it work. >> the agolarovs travelled to the states in june 2013. goldstone was on hand for the introductions. >> i remember i was in the lobby of the tru

if you're a russian ambassador overseas and you come home and you take over a major faction of russian industry, you're well connected. >> and kukes seemed eager to show he was building connections of his own. >> dear slava, i was at a dinner with trump. i think his chances are very good. the most respected mayor, rudy giuliani. >> that made my blood run cold because there is so little said and yet so much conveyed. >> what is conveyed? >> to me what's conveyed is, i was with donald trump. we have a plan in action and it's going to work. this guy is going to win. our guy is going to win. >> why send the photo? >> the photo is basically what we might call bona fides. it's proof that, okay, i really can produce what i'm saying i can produce. here i am with giuliani. >> we talked to giuliani. he told us he doesn't remember meeting simon kukes. we looked at the photo's metta data. it shows it was taken august 13, 2016, when giuliani attended a fund-raiser hosted by new york jets owner woody johnson at his mansion in the hamptons. guests paid up to $25,000 to meet and greet candidate trump.

you talked about russian behavior. my concern, as a member of this committee an american citizen, i want to make sure they don't have the capacity to do something, what ever their intentions are. that brings us to the question that senator rubio talked about when he talked about this new strategic nuclear weapon in march. vladimir putin said the weapons include a nuclear powered cruise missile, and underwater drone that can be armed with a nuclear warhead. they have hypersonic missiles, and the headline in one of the papers said high-tech weaponry, russia's new nuclear weapons are technically plausible. this is something they could potentially have. putin did his boasting. whether it was idle or real, what is our government's assessment of the level of accuracy on these weapons? >> senator, i cannot speak specifically to the individual systems that president putin announced. some of them may be more mature than others. i do think it is a worrisome development that he announced these so publicly, and made such a present

the russian the russian secret services essentially which is which is while investigating the tragedy and is investigating what happened in crimea so far this is all we have all right thank you so mind eagerly for bringing us up to speed to what's happening right now in the russian city of size here where you are among the presidential pool of turin liston you just heard the russian president vladimir putin speaking on the tragedy that happened in the russian city of kurtz thank you . what led just bring you up to date on those the events seventeen people have been confirmed killed and up to seventy injured in an explosion and gone attack on a college in crimea russia's investigative committee has reclassified the incident from terror attack to murder the main suspect is a student at the college and has been named frostnip cough he is sad to have turned his gun on himself security measures have been intensified on the peninsula and all schools colleges and universities across russia the military are helping to evacuate the interest from the scene of the blast crimea has declared three

if you're a russian ambassador overseas and then you come home and take over a major faction of russian injury, you're well connected. >> he seemed eager to show he was building connections of his own. >> i was at a dinner with donald trump. i think his chances are very good. in his corner is america's most respected male rudy giuliani. >> that made my blood run cold, there's so little said and so much conveyed. >> what's conveyed? >> to my, what's conveyed is, i was with donald trump, we have a plan in action, and it's going to work. this guy is going to win. our guy is going to win. >> why send the boat toe? >> the photo is basically what we might call proof that i really can produce what i'm saying i can produce. here i am with giuliani. >> we talked to giuliani, he doesn't remember meeting simon kukis. we looked at the photo's metadata, it was taken on august 13th, 2016. when giuliani attended a fund-raiser hosted by woody johnson at his mansion in the hamptons. guests paid up to $25,000 to meet and greet candidate trump. two days earlier, kukis donated exactly in a amount. a few we

half years since the great crisis erupted and you certainly can see that everything has gone wrong for russian foreign policy around it you know it's intervention in syria starts in two thousand and fifteen that probably would have occurred with or without the ukraine crisis and you know i'm not sure how much you want to get into a discussion of russian behavior in syria but it's from a power point of view it's actually been pretty successful so one might say that there's been a period in which there have been certain gains but you know also lots of other things have gone wrong that russians and never shy of them to their grievances of democrats but i've got a sense that they've had enough of that already and they want that. kind of normalize their relationship at the moment i know that's your long suggested that there should be some sort of a working group or by the actual panel that would take stock of their relationship and focus specifically on how to avoid further damage. or adjudicating who is to blame do you think that sustainable in the current american political environment well if it

there were hundreds of victims targeted by these russian criminals the russian government needs to know russia's indiscriminate campaign exposed by wants to fully condemn this of this reckless. behavior irresponsible behavior from moscow. ok let's go stateside now of course mckillop more pin has been following this story for as easy new york just take us through that a bit more about the claims in detail and tell us about the evidence if there's any so we've got the department of justice of the united states charging seven russians now the crimes listed are hacking money laundering wire fraud and identity theft and it's being alleged in the indictment that not only did they commit these crimes but they did it on behalf of russia's g.r.u. let's take a listen real quick to the indictment the seven defendants are charged with the pervasive campaign of hacking stealing private and sensitive information and publicizing that information to retaliate against russia's detractors and sway public opinion in russia's favor. now the allegations go on to say that essentially they began to hacking in

if you're a russian ambassador overseas and you come home and you take over a major faction of russian industry, you're well connected. >> and kukes seemed eager to show he was building connections of his own. >> dear slava, i was at a dinner with trump. i think his chances are very good. the most respected mayor, rudy giuliani. >> that made my blood run cold because there is so little said and yet so much conveyed. >> what is conveyed? >> to me what's conveyed is, i was with donald trump. we have a plan in action and it's going to work. this guy is going to win. our guy is going to win. >> why send the photo? >> the photo is basically what we might call bona fides. it's proof that, okay, i really can produce what i'm saying i can produce. here i am with giuliani. >> we talked to giuliani. he told us he doesn't remember meeting simon kukes. we looked at the photo's metta data. it shows it was taken august 13, 2016, when giuliani attended a fund-raiser hosted by new york jets owner woody johnson at his mansion in the hamptons. guests paid up to $25,000 to meet and greet candidate trump.

moscow and new delhi sign a contract for the delivery of russian s four hundred air defense systems with india defining a u.s. threat of sanctions. a tribe you know here's how informants to britain and mind my secret service are allowed to break the law if it prevents a bigger crime. and the west hits out at russia's g.r.u. military intelligence service exposing an alleged campaign of cyber attacks around the world including on the international chemical weapons watchdog. this is r.t. international coming to life from the russian capital with your global news update this hour welcome to the program. a vast contract to deliver russian s four hundred air defense systems to india has been signed by vladimir putin and the render modi the leaders penned the deal despite washington's attempts to stop india signing. is in new delhi for us the whole scale of today's meeting while it was staggering if i was to list everything that the two leaders will discuss from nuclear corp to our great culture to space and so on and so forth could easily take the rest of the day and also a very warm very cord

a lover of russian foreign minister. offered him to have a consultations on the cyber security and he said if you have any questions in connection with the alleged russian activity we can put this specialist from two countries sit down with a table and discuss professionally what are the concerns of the british side the british refused to do this and instead of the they launched reckless attacks on us without any evidence this is quite a big story you know this is the name of the russian intelligence organisation you know if you names there are expelled in all these things but the beef i mean this is this substance is not. basically given so we're going to ask the british side to give more information on that and we're going to repeat our call if you have some information please share this information and we're ready to sit and talk for thirty years informants to britain's homeland security service m i five have been allowed to commit crimes on british soil without fear of prosecution if it prevents more serious offenses

betrays the general russian. president there and in particular but i'm wondering if you think self could afford to abandon or cheat on the agreements that he reached with putin regarding the i think you're making a very good point. to to throw russia under the bus easily in favor of some kind of an alliance with the united states because turkey personally is in a very difficult position of the moment there's a lot of pressure on him at home over the syria policy there's a lot of people at home saying why are you not returning all those syrian refugees back to syria and of course that agreement over is probably the last you know straw that. syria policy which has been disastrous to be honest while we're still on the subject of syria publicized details of the journalist murder are extremely disturbing but not in the context of syria because. there are things much worse that have been done in that country by the rebels that are supported either by saudi arabia or i'm afraid. but speaking about saudi arabia do you th

this question of russian violation is long and deep. it is something that both the trump and the obama administration's were very concerned about. in fact, just to give a little context, i would like to read from a speech in 2015 by the obama administration under secretary of state for arms-control insecurity rose, this is what undersecretary said in 2015. >> [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] >> i am quoting rose, she said that russia tested started in 2008, ground launch cruise missile that flies to ranges banned by the treaty. the band ranges are between 505,500 kilometers. we are quite sure they have tested a capable missile that applies to those regions and try to get away with it. we called with them on it starting in may 2013 and we have been butting heads ever cents. >

i love russia very much i love the russian people and the russian culture. but i have a problem with the people who run the country. they have to learn to respect other cultures. this soviet era statue was intended to symbolize the georgian character the figure holds a bowl of wine to welcome friends and a sword to ward off enemies. reality says that in today's independent georgia artistic and intellectual life is thriving georgians love to read most homes are filled with books and even the smallest village has a library right he says that georgians respect their literary heritage and this allows them to preserve their national language in soviet times. that use just grotesque. it's an expression of soviet fantasy. georgians don't like it you put it is no femininity whatsoever. and that sword shows just how far apart georgia in the soviet union one of the time. but if not it points out a big white building near the river. that's the city's public service hole. we visit the building the next morning it's about as far removed from salvage era structures as you

i would do a song in russian and the audience that doesn't speak russian still responds. >> runs and operates shopping malls and fashion brands and restaurants. including co-owning nobu with robert de niro. so he's a pretty interesting character to begin with. >> and how amon led to trump takes a detour through the world of beauty pageants, miss universe. >> amon and i went to meet with the miss universe organization in manhattan. and about getting a co-star for a video. >> and they asked for the most beautiful woman in the world. they also had a conversation about where the next miss universe contest would be. >> and amon says why not moscow? my father and i own this big concert hall in moscow. why don't we do that instead? he went, let's do it you'll have your concert. rob will torg and that's it. >> the idea went all the way to the top of the miss universe organization. to donald trump. >> donald trump loved the idea, said -- make it work. >> the agolarovs travelled to the states in june 2013. goldstone was on hand for the introductions. >> i remember i was in the lobby of the tru

and now two episodes or of russians on russians he said that russian side genetically inclined to plan to treat and then to fear milligan he haley says more or less the same thing going to go edge of i think the reason why this is becoming a bit of a comedy is because this is the russia good thing it works i mean let's not let's not forget how this all started with the hillary clinton or so of course revealed that they were passing over questions around town hall meetings and essentially they colluded so. russia can really be blamed for everything and some of the of course the some serious cases but. it's going to walk into the colonies section is wrong because if you remember well my favorite i think was last week was blaming the poor star wars movie on the kremlin because you know the russian boats were out there one size fits all in the western culture probably my favorite of all. george to start your kid through it he was accused of sexual harassment and essentially he turned around saying well. a lot of this online traffic is obviously rush limbaugh . and because he's you know bei

russian. trace in it very easy to show russia when human rights watch talks about brutal attacks on roma people people rights activists when i'm the she says the same thing when freedom house or the senate it's not all russian conspiracy no but partially it is that's one thing and the other yes yes there are there are there are cases where russia is working unfortunately very actively also inside ukraine that's one thing and another thing is that whenever these cases are happening we are reacting fiercely against them and the law enforcement is taking care of that bad marriage education about your chance that and where you know i would also want to see more. professional approach back home but i think when you are rebuilding the whole institution sometimes it takes time to rebuild them and it takes time for them to to react properly so yes we do have separate cases and i was very concerned for example with what has happened with roma people definitely you know i'm one of those that is speaking

there were hundreds of victims targeted by these russian criminals the russian government needs to know russia's indiscriminate campaign exposed i wanted to fully condemn this attack this reckless. behavior irresponsible behavior from moscow and here's how a venn sun folded on thursday the u.s. the netherlands and britain almost simultaneously accuse russia's jail your military intelligence service of a string of cyber attacks ati's down in hawkins. response from moscow with counter accusations towards neverland's in the u.k. branding all this story effectively stoking russophobia anti russian propaganda and what the president described as spying mania across the globe moscow's question the timing of all this these incidents in the netherlands at least alleged to have happened several months ago now the expulsion of those people allegedly or the diplomatic passports but said to be do you agents military intelligence agents the information as you just come out now though the photographs the full information the statement of cetera and moscow or the foreign ministry russia has said that t

good and twenty thousand to russians. but we russian india have close or a similar approach towards many international and regional issues and that context we have agreed to enhance the quality of our copper ration working hand in hand on many international platform such as the united nations g twenty the c.e.o. and brics will be reinforcing security and cooperation in asia. be fighting together many challenges of today such as international terrorism direct traffic in turns border. that we touch upon such matters as the revival. of the economy and bring stability to afghanistan discussing our opinions in our assessments of the situation in the middle east i briefed my counterpart on the station in syria we discussed as you asian which was being created as a result of the unilateral u.s. decision to withdraw from the joint comprehensive deal. on the run and should like to think it is excellent of prime minister and all our friends from india for a very detailed and constructive talks i am sure that the outcomes will serve

russian foreign affairs minister sergey lavrov said that the situation surrounding the so-called russian spies on the netherlands is a deceptive maneuver and that the story was made public especially i had a needle between minister is so that the timing is not at all accidental. mixed martial arts star who. has just returned home to a hero's welcome in russia's republic of dagestan after beating conor mcgregor in las vegas in the fight of the year these are pictures from the stadium where showed off his title belt to cheering crowds thousands of devoted fans gathered to greet the. and ben who holds the longest on the record permanent history our reporter dan armstrong was there. and we're here at angie arena where thousands and thousands of fans have gathered to see the hero have beaten amalgamate of the u.s.c. lightweight champion of course yet that fantastic victory over economy a great weekend going by fourth round technical submission by reid make it show jory not fight here in thousands and thousands of funds just as they hit inside the stadium inside movie theaters and restaurants

string of accusations by a number of western countries and international organizations made against russian military. military intelligence service was implicated in a host of cyber attacks including attempting to the international chemical weapons watchdog. the details. election interference troll factories this information man hacking we've heard most of it before but the latest charge sheet against russia is all encompassing and endless there were hundreds of victims targeted by these russian criminals if they flours international law in this way russia's indiscriminate campaign of cyber attacks the violations of several u.s. criminal laws they will be exposed russia must stop reckless and irresponsible behavior. this director's pattern of behavior the russian government needs to know they want to fully condemn this it will be exposed and it will be consequences it seems every accusation of malign activity over the last four years from the downing of m h seven team to the water doping scandal has come back all at once united under a common name and symbol before it was often vague russia

you know, the chinese and russians are not better than us. but, you know, this is a world, as you know, where, you know, you can be safe 99% of the time, but if -- you only need to break through 1%. there's never been that asymmetrical balance where you have two sides that have got to be relatively equal. there's a million attacks, more than a million, frankly, attacks a day on the defense department on cyber. and, you know, what do we need? you know, we need basic better hygiene, authentication, i think we may need to have a real discussion. i'm not sure i would even bend there on this issue three months ago, clearly not six months ago around identity validation on the internet. maybe the price of doing transactions is you've got to be willing to not be anonymous. i'm not 100% there, but i'm at least thinking about it. the idea of, and this is, again, one where i'm not sure trump is even 100% wrong of a space force, a space development agency may not be the worst thing. i mean, for a long time what's, again, made me crazy is -- and i've spen

alone welcome to worlds apart over the last decade the russian foreign policy has always been constructed to serve as a mirror sometimes a fun phallus mirror to the united states but that approach if the wall went to america and political reality became stranger than fiction now the most glowing and secure innings you gather the bilateral relationship back to normal what optics should it use to facilitate it well to discuss that i'm now joined by timothy cult a professor of government and russian studies at harvard university professor cold and it's good to talk to your again thank you for agreeing to work with speaking on the sidelines so did paul di forum and the catchphrase of these years of band is the crumbling world the other is that's really desired guys or perhaps more brass wishful thinking on the part of the russians well i would say it's wishful thinking i think the authors of the report that referring to actually saw the crumbly were. would order as a problem that they weren't very happy with but. so there was quite a lively discussion of the report at the first session and ce

also on the program a range of western countries including the united states accuses russia and the russian agents of launching cyber attacks around the world are targets including the un's chemical weapons watchdog. i'm phil gal welcome to the program the u.s. satis is a step closer to confirming president trump's nomination to the supreme court the f.b.i. report into allegations of sexual assaults against judge brett kavanaugh has now been shown to sentences republicans say it contains nothing to substantiate the claims as thousands of m c kavanaugh protesters took to washington streets democrats criticized it as incomplete and constrained by a white house determined to push through the lifetime appointment of the conservative fifty three year old judge as in previous senate judiciary a hearings a confidential report prompted a partisan rough. democrats dianne feinstein said the most notable bonce of the report was well it was not in it the f.b.i. did not interview brett kavanaugh nor did the f.b.i. interview dr blasi for what we've heard from numerous people over the last few days seekin

so what were the russians up to? the man who set it up as a theory. >> so do you agree with national security officials both prior and current who believe that this meeting was a probe set up by the russian government of the trump campaign? >> i've always looked at it as a bait and switch. >> goldstone says he thinks the offer of incriminating information was made just to get into the room. >> it was a dirty offer. >> yes. >> it was a dirty offer they accepted. >> yes, that is true. it didn't materialize, but yes. it's the willingness to accept it. >> that willingness, intelligence experts say, may have been the whole point. >> a lot of my sources, current and former intelligence officials believe this meeting was essentially a test by the russian intelligence services to see how the trump team would respond. >> when you tell someone we have dirt, you're testing the waters to see what the response is. and once you get a yes, a positive response to that, you have hooked your fish. >> if it was a sophisticated intellig

oh no the kremlin folks even got their hands on star wars russian trolls weaponized style was criticism as an instrument for information warfare with the purpose of pushing for political change this was from a real study by a brave jet i call or i mean who claims there's been a force that was fighting to make the last jet i fail wow thirty seven pages remember how the movie got booed at when those need fans couldn't forgive the director for spoiler alert killing luke skywalker and forgive him for going against all the tropes so dearly cherished by the fandom remember how the star wars lovers army even campaign to fund a remake well now you know who did it the sith sorry the russians had a great disturbance in the force as millions of doses suddenly cried out into the sun his son just to prove it the guy behind the research analyzed almost a thousand on line messages for the director and his result was more than half of the hate tweets came from trolls some of them were russian. the director didn't just pay attention he shared the link to the study with his twitter followers looking forw

a russian woman is charged in the u.s. for allegedly orchestrating a social media meddling campaign for next month's major elections we take a closer look. at every you may be tuning in from writes iran the world this hour a warm welcome to moscow and to r.t. international i mean i know neal good to have your company our top story saudi arabia say that journalist who went missing over a fortnight ago in turkey died in a fistfight inside its consulate in istanbul riyadh has already dismissed two senior officials arrested eighteen others linked to the case well the explanation surrounding the disappearance of jamal. house already being dismissed as improbable . backlash from journalists and politicians it also contradicts earlier sunday claims that left the consulate shortly after arriving there there are calls now for the gulf monarchy to bear a full responsibility for what happened while donald trump say he is sophos fide with the latest a current. the discussions that took place with the citizen jamal how shorty during hi

well it's not just the russian military having accusations. not just around the corner here on the program on r t the u.s. could slap india with sanctions off a new delhi sign that deal with russia more details on that just. unfortunately the united nations security council in this approach to yemen is only to listen to the speech and impose it affords many months or two months and then that is introduced when weeks. i mean that imminent it does in terms of the security council would make these statements which would have been to. us a sign of playing to this idea of the u.s. dollar reserve currency empire they've built over post world war two hero for everyone gets the death of america and pays homage to america china russia iran africa good name and they're all saying now we want markets all as a trump wants markopolos up he wanted for it we wanted to trade directly bilaterally we don't want to be part of the globalization anymore. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports bus

so they really needed this crew they really needed the russian and the. an austrian are to get there because they. had a lot of things planned the most present of course but one of these things goes there's a huge amount of money involved in it when something like this goes wrong but they have a spare ready to go well we don't know how long it's going to not but what they're doing up on the well we do know that at least manned flights they have been put on hold this has been officially confirmed so no manned flights in the near future so the show jewel will be pushed off what about the people up in the us well that's a very good question but of course they won't have to talk to an expert just the previous hour and he told us that of course they won't have to kind of you know tighten their belts and rush and there are more. that would that would that won't happen because i can see because of course crucially with the soyuz with what happens in kazakhstan it's impossible there's no other way to get in and. indeed but well the big thing right now there are t

it will be consequences russian stop this ridiculous old behavior. it's become tradition to accuse russia of all possible crimes basically the russians got caught and they have got to pay the piper they're going to have to be held to account we want them to stand trial and we want to put them in jail. also on the day n.g.o.s who operate civilian rescue ships say they're fighting to save migrants in the mediterranean you authorities accuse them of being taxi services for people smugglers as one vessel is prevented from leaving port its operating license revoked another sets out for the waters of libya as n.g.o.s say the e.u. is putting politics before saving lives it seems white european policy at the moment is that in all sorts of migration you have two choices be picked up by the bankers got taken back to libya for intervention or by. in a series of coordinated announcements a number of western governments have accused russia of orchestrating a global campaign of cyber attacks the revelations here in europe began in the netherlands with dutch and br

russian charged. a russian woman is charged with conspiracy to interfere in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections. federal authorities say it's part of a broader plot to sow discord and manipulate voters by spreading disinformation online on a variety of hot-button issues. >>> ongoing interference. top u.s. intelligence and law enforcement officials are now warning there's an ongoing effort by russia and others to interfere in u.s. elections and undermine democratic institutions. so what is the u.s. doing about it? >>> in a wheelchair. president trump's former campaign chairman, paul manafort, shows up in a prison jumpsuit and in a wheelchair. and learns he'll be sentenced in february. manafort's lawyer says he has a medical condition related to his confinement. >>> and cohen's midterm message. president trump's former lawyer and ultimate loyalist urges americans to vote against the president and the gop, michael cohen. warning that otherwise there would be two or six more years of what he calls crazine

i think i believe there's a russian language and student sudan that's run by a russian company so you're seeing some of these these. soft power institutions but they're very different from what they were before. but i do think you know you know there's a lot of. criticism that you know the west. conditions its engagement conditions dangerous on good governance and anti-corruption sometimes it realize you know it lives up to that sometimes it doesn't but i think for many african countries you know engagement can be turned off from the west at a moment's notice so i think many countries are looking at. china and russia as a more reliable partner and i think you particular see this with arms sales you know several countries that have had you know the the west either europe or the united states cut off arms sales they're now pivoting to russia because they don't see that as a likely problem down the road and so. i sort of also would argue that many african countries rapidly developing economies they want greater global power and they want greater influence over the international system and t

alten professor of government and russian studies at harvard university professor colton it's good to talk to your again thank you for agreeing to or we're speaking on the sidelines self did paul die foreign and the catchphrase of these years of band is the crumbling world the other is that's really desired guys or perhaps more of wishful thinking on the part of the russians well i wouldn't say it's wishful thinking i think the authors of the report that you're referring to actually saw the crumbling world order as a problem that they weren't very happy with but. so there was quite alarming discussion of the report at the first session and certainly a number of us start that they were exaggerating the degree of the problem. you know that the international order is under a lot of stress nowadays is beyond you know that they've been doing this for a picture to look for them and set the debuted as a problem i may have my perception is that the russians also see that as more of an opportunity for themselves or at least something that benefits that a geo political vision more i've done for

space program and just russian general well for russia generally this is of course a sad news and it comes at a time when russia is an outcast on the international stage for its aggressive policy against ukraine for the alleged alledged poisoning of the former russians edge and script holland for the alleged interference into the us elections and that this crash is just of the latest in a string of bad news from russia despite the fact that the both astronauts have survived and this is a bad day for the russian space program as well of course russia has the image of a space nation of a nation that gave the world to the first man in space you're going but today russia suspend its manned space flights for the time being at least as long as of the coals of the crash landing is being investigated right now the astronauts yuri were headed for the international space station what about the astronauts on board the i assess. well this certainly isn't a reason for panic or a question of survival there there is an offer of food obviously water and x. oxygen on the ice as butter the astronauts

the guys in the crew that is currently on the space station they all incomplete because we have one russian guy one american austrian orde and one european austrian so kind of without this crew the can really move forward with whatever they're doing with whatever experiments they're doing for example reportedly the american and the russian space walks have been pushed off and this is crucial because the big scandal with the isis right now are the holes in it so that. the surface again last month there isn't a you know it's surface last month of the first found one tiny hole and then a few more and there was and it's not clear what what what happened there what caused it was it a just some something went wrong during the assembly of the. almost windows you get on in age as well as now yeah or did someone do that while the sas which is if you ask me is unimaginable but still and they were supposed like for example the russian team was supposed to do a space walk and to figure out like to take a closer look at those holes now this is being postponed or experiments to do as well there's that al

who's up there all alone in the russian section is going. to get called he talked about some elements of russian cuisine that. requested to be ready upon his arrival there's nothing nothing fancy just like some standard standard things to remind him of the american we we heard from him earlier as well his name was nick a yeah yeah he's talked about him is forty three years old we also talked to him and he described his feelings what he expected from this flight that didn't happen have a listen. i think the thing i'm most looking forward to is just experiencing my own adaptation to space i'm going to go up there and i'm going to float for six months my feet need to touch the ground they'll be all kinds of kids or logical changes that are going to happen to my body and i'm going to adapt that environment there is also going to be every day something that surprises me i just want to try to absorb as much of it as i can i've heard lots of astronauts and cosmonauts come back from space and see it way you describe it never does it justice. never c

russian. trace in it where you to show russia when human rights watch talks about brutal attacks on roma people people when i am a she says the same thing when freedom house or the senate is not all russian conspiracy no but partially it is that's one thing and the other yes yes there are there are there are cases where russia is working unfortunately very actively also inside ukraine that's one thing and another thing is that whenever these cases are happening we are reacting fiercely against them and the law enforcement is taking care of that bad marriage education about that and where you know i would also want to see more. professional approach back home but i think when you are rebuilding the whole institution sometimes it takes time to rebuild them and it takes time for them to to react properly so yes we do have separate cases and i was very concerned for example with what has happened with roma people definitely you know i'm one of those that is speaking out at the governmental level a

these are russian military officers. if we could get our hands on these folks one day we would have no problem bringing them to justice. reporter: when people claim that connection to russia isn't true, does that impact your ability to do that? hands onn we get our them, we are not going to have any problems. reporter: three of the officers in the were previously indicted by robert mueller steam. thi -- was this coordinated with robert mueller's office? was: this investigation totally separate from robert mueller's office. -- rter: john: i'm not going to respond to questions about any internal justice department discussions. pennsylvania often seems to be involved in the cases charging folks packing for an -- folks in foreign governments hacking. is everybody believes this affected to -- an effective deterrent. >> to answer the first part of your question, the reason that they are in pittsburgh is that we have the best agents and the best prosecutors in the department of justice. i take issue of the premise to issue toti