taking over the crimea in two thousand and fourteen russia broke international law russia could have got to crimea without weapons because seventy percent of the population on the crimea the russians no one but all due respect i mean. there are people who investor who agree that russia broke international law but indisputable but in this world everybody breaks international law so you cannot demand one single country to a pal that when everybody else including russia main rival sending the same. book optimist i remain an optimist he writes that the only solution to the conflict with ukraine is the fulfilling of the two diplomatic process russia has been failing to do not because the pro russian. separatists in southeast your present should be. cooled down down send thousand lives lost my point is that. and in doing what putin did in two thousand and fourteen many people and notably all the western countries think that he really how police say the debris doctrine defending the invasion of czechoslovakia twenty first of august one isn't at once and that was why he did. i think that put

don't matter to western know russia poorly as a mention to you don't mistake relationships in russia fascinate me to distaste much more than foreign policy and putin he was wrong publishing a very interesting book in the spring or month in two thousand appeared from the first mom of the states. and then he is describing his period a sick age of the major in the east germany in the autumn of eighty nine we speak for the downfall of the berlin wall and he writes in the book that we were sitting and they take a dissident tool in the burning secret documents until the oval one two zero and is said we didn't quite understand what happened in germany but we did have a feeling that the soviet union was mortally it was called the power lies of governments one of the most quoted and misquoted sayings of putin is that because of the soviet union it was one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century you saw that in real time when you were stationed in russia back then what was it like for you and that experience of the whole universe i suppose collapsing came very abruptly but i underst

russia and now china and it will do anything but it's almost equal big for russia it's not the prosperity of expediently it's not security of its borders it is to ensure that russia is one of those great powers deciding on all major us international relations. this particular oil out this particular treaty abrogation is just is one element of a much wider dispute where i russia believes it is analogous to the us and that is really only true insofar as numbers of nuclear weapons are concerned ironically. i'm interested in your take on that is this about russia and vladimir putin insisting that they deserve a seat at the table with with with the u.s. and other countries is that what this is about. all oh yes partially yes of course russia believes that it is. a great power should be reckoned with and that the west is trying to kind of eyes away at russia move it to the side kind of. cordon it off somewhere in the steps of eurasia and make it their relevant but there are also other things internally which are very important when you consider russian foreign policy and defense policy decision

larry i'll tell you what it adds up to it's russia gate without russia russia isn't there hardly at all it ends up to tax fraud and sex so we're now talking about i didn't pay my taxes gate and sex gate please larry how long have we lived you know any other politicians who have tried to make sexual escapades go away and one instance it has to do with russia and that's when general flynn flynn flynn remember he was trump's national security advisor for about eighteen days i would he do he rang up the russian in basher. and he said don't do anything exciting when we get into office we're going to review our policy toward you know every american president elect since at least nixon has told his national security adviser to have such a back channel talk kissinger did it for nixon michael book fall did it for obama flynn then nothing wrong he did it on the orders of trump who was following the advice of henry kissinger perfectly normal why did flynn lie that the f.b.i. that's a different question what do you think of who. now i step back i cease to be a very worried american a citizen an

that russia should not give in. that russia should go on. russia should be independent. but if you ask about way of life, if you ask about what countries would we like to take this example from... emulate, i guess? emulate, yes. it's... it's, first of all, western countries. so, this is it, ourfinal morning in russia. we're on our way to the airport now. if i'm honest, before i came here, i did have a slight nervous preconception as to what it might be like. probably because of all the negative news stories about russia that have been kicking around. now, we've only been in moscow, so we can'tjudge the whole country, but it's not been like that at all. just walking around, it feels like any other city. and, to be honest, ifeel a bit stupid for having that nervous preconception at all. that being said, after you've been here for a few days, you do sense an undercurrent of fear, i think, it's fair to say, among people? we went to a football match in some of our downtime the other day. we went to see spartak moscow. and i've never seen a crowd being so well behaved, as they

turkey and russia. working hard stablish a constitutional committee for syria to establish a new constitution writes a new constitution or amended existing one. to allow for all inclusive syrian elections and the united states has been absent. looted the fact that the united states is trying to impede the work of the constitutional committee so. interesting thought with syria there. but the issue of i came right thanks for that recap but we're expecting plenty more interesting topics intriguing questions come up more isaac of escaping across all of those developments for us though don't worry if you have to keep dipping in and out yourself we're keeping across this press conference live for us russian relations is expected to dominate a lot of the questions in this press conference this year but of course russia has been in the headlines quite a lot this year with the script powell case maria the russian woman who's been accused of being a spy in the u.s. and also the coach straight incident has dominat

to russia as a big stretch. and play even think that you as president of russia seek to rule the world yes certainly and i'd like to know whether that is indeed. what you seek to achieve and could you please tell us what the real goal of your foreign policy. thank you for your well as for trying to rule the world. we know very well up but headquarters. that are trying to do exactly that and these headquarters are not in moscow. why is that this is due to the leading role of the united states in the world economy this is due to the expenditure on defense more than seven hundred billion dollars is spent by the us on defense whereas we have just forty six. and nature countries have six hundred million people and we have one hundred forty do you really think it is our go to rule the world you know this is just a mentality in pairs to buy some in order to achieve some internal. goes inside they need to block for instance they want to make navy countries unite i notice united these countries an external threat is requ

russia's new hypersonic missile. new watch is the test firing of the kremlin's latest weapon flying at twenty seven times faster than the speed of sound means it could reach the united states or anywhere else within minutes how big a threat is it this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm glad i'm here putin is describing it as an excellent new year's gift to the nation russia's president is hailing the successful testing of a new missile as guaranteeing security for decades to come supersonic missile systems are slower than hypersonic flying at many times the speed of sound they're designed to evade missile shield systems to strike anywhere in the world putin says nothing can shoot it down. and one got the new of unguarded system is invincible against any existing and future enemy missile defenses it's a great success a great victory it will be deployed next year and we'll be joined by a regiment which will be put on judy we will move forward in accordance with our plans promising military arm system

because russia is now. try to balance between iran which is a valuable ally and between israel which is also an important partner for russia not only in the middle east but on the global scale so russia will not. begin a confrontation with iran but russia can support the central government and the circular goal of central government and remove the iranians if they choose to because i remember quite well the experience of the previous president hafez a lawsuit here who was also a cup or a tin with the iranians but he was always very cautious and he or here always maintained his maintained his autonomy he was never dependent on aunt to her and so i think his son bashar assad will follow this example as soon as he has the opportunity richard there has been mounting concern to be expressed from u.s. lawmakers as to president trump's moves when it comes to syria his decision to pull u.s. troops from syria. will congress in the u.s. be able to do anything to counter this or should we expect this to play out the w

created in russia in the past several years. we are collecting of them every day it's the inflation targeting is the new fiscal rule it's a new mechanism which is only it's rational from the blitz you gets you on the global commodity markets and this is what's in the deal if you protects the russian currency makes it more stable because if you compare the cut institutionalization of twenty which you we have as if that put it at that point of time we have. those because of the sanctions stocks we have sharp decline in oil prices it's even the fuss that was happening in the autumn of twenty foot you but the difference is really dramatic at that point of them it was extremely well to financial markets which were infecting the mystic when they meet these things. by the fed that we have for you floating exchange rate because of previous feeble currency would have previously able financial markets which are not on the big stress and that helps economy going forward and that leaving a stable economy because i would just like to explain

and russia. oh it's terrible i mean i mean i'm disappointed. you know i was a child the cold war i studied the soviet union in order to try and destroy it but then the cold war ended and we were looking to into partnership with russia but it's been one disappointment after another so we had a slight reconciliation the cold war that collapsed then after nine eleven the two thousand and one terrorist attacks there was a brief reconciliation but that slowly fade over time. president obama came in made a sincere effort to reset relations with russia but that failed and now in the present trump that was one thing he made was one of his core object as was improve relations with russia and he's failed so i don't know what's going to make the relationship better or it's just awful and so as both speakers of a point now this leads to a very unfortunate situation regarding arms control and mung other relations so as as was discussed we now have one treaty that's about to collapse the ion after treaty which was signed during the cold war and limits the nu

russia's trade on the voice of the u.k. about british business in the largest country on earth that's all coming up in part two of going underground. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it mean when the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying and there's just no really hasn't been that we want even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten light colored foreign tempi each dish. eighty five percent of glob

he was lying about his dealings with russia and russia knew it, and russia was helping him to keep the secret. so this is bad. we've got a presidential candidate for one thing, offering a $50 million gift. it's a gift to a foreign leader, secretly. so he's compromised on that. they can expose him for that f they want. to russia has also compromised him because he is lying about this ongoing business suit in russia and russia's plan to provide him hundreds of millions of dollars for that real estate project if he gets those sanctions lifted. he is lying about that. he is not mentioning his personal stake in the sanction issue when he is talking about sanction. so russia has him compromised on that too. i mean the secret moscow deal is damning enough. it's damning enough that a criminal cover-up effort is launched that includes the president's lawyer lying to congress under oath about the deal. congressman jim himes from the intelligence committee was here last night and told us it might not just be michael cohen who was in on the cover-up. there were not a lot of inconsistent 70s the is

halt the menace of an expansionist russia which i think is. not the case i mean there is a view that russia is this global menace so you have nato on the borders of the baltic countries it's a trip wire for more conflict nato should have been abolished at the end of the soviet union i mean it was there to designed to counter the warsaw pact right now i think what should happen with nato is it should halt its expansion ukraine should become nonaligned the future of ukraine should be as a bridge between east and west that was the hope not as a proxy country for war between civil war between the united states and russia so you know when trump says things like nato attacks nato he's both right but he's the wrong messenger because people think he's doesn't know what he's talking about well he is so. nato has been brought up recently while some german and french politicians were pondering over the idea of creating a common european army. if that happens and trump wants europeans to take care of their own security with that make nato obsolete i don't

so russia in fact is. is not as strong economically as the acis so at the moment it's in their interest because it's a strategic benefit for them because they have those i.m.f. relevant missiles and the u.s. doesn't have but in the longer term russia is not able to compete with us in terms of an arms race because they just have a much smaller economy they have their life ways worse ways worse off in terms of technology ok also on the agenda in brussels today is a potential flashpoint between the west and russia ukraine do you see nato stepping in as some point in guaranteeing ukraine security you know that would that would be a higher risk of a military confrontation between nato and russia which both sides want to point what we will say is maybe or what we at least will see as a verbal support for ukraine and condemnation of russia's action we may also see air patrols less likely sanctions that's what the u.s. is pushing for but the european partners they want to they want to postpone it to have more and

all oh yes partially yes of course russia believes that that is. great power should be reckoned with and that the west is trying to kind of eyes away at russia move it to the side kind of. cordon it off somewhere in the steps of eurasia and make it their relevant but there are also other things internally which are very important when you consider russian foreign policy and defense policy decision making there's the so-called economic liberal party the fortunes of ministration and government who are clamoring actually to stop this standoff with the west to cut defense spending which are opposed to the defense industrial complex so there's a lot of infighting within the russian the administration within the russian ruling smallish weak but they are i mean these people are all loyal to ports and sort of but they have incompatible understandings and beliefs on where russia should go and how it should develop so there is so you should always take into account that washington is split but my moscow is also split and that should be taken in the to accoun

i don't have any deals in russia. i have nothing to do with russia. i have no investments in russia, none whatsoever. i have no dealings with russia. i have no deals in russia. i have no deals that could happen in russia because we've stayed away. >> eastern promises. we now know those claims made by trump are 100% false. the president's former lawyer michael cohen agreed to congress about a real estate project he was pursuing in moscow while he was a candidate for president. it says it was a holy grail. writing -- trump seen here in december 1987 greeting mikhail gorbachev in washington, first visited moscow earlier that year to scope out luxury hotel sites, a plan that eventually fell through. he traveled again in 1996 exploring another project. that project fizzled. in fact, former trump biographer points out after he was sued for libel, trump told attorneys, it's ridiculous that i wouldn't be investing in russia. russia is one of the top places in the world for investment. tim, let's go over this. what is it about his movement to russia, what is i

cold war and remind you it's a post communist russia it's a russia that says it's capitalist the old cold war was peoples explained by ideology i'm not so sure about that that's a separate discussion but how do we explain a cold war more dangerous than the last war with a russia that says it shares our capitalist beliefs and even our religious beliefs how do you explain that. something happened back in the one nine hundred ninety s. on bill clinton's watch and it was called nato expansion that's a kind of cliche we've lived with it for more than twenty years but it is the geo political original sense the decision to move us led western military power all the way to russia's borders and it's on russia's borders now in the baltic states in ukraine what did they think russia's reaction was going to be well ok fine put all your weapons on our border or we'll forget about the german invasion in one hundred forty one we don't have any memory of russia didn't move any power anywhere so much of what's happened has been a reaction of russia and of europe to the expansion of nato that's the or

culture of the nile is very strong in russia the culture the culture it's very. this is out here we're taking you live now to ankara in turkey where turkish president richard type is speaking after talks with the iranian press the president has sent me we're going to listen in now he thinks. the meetings between delegates. have been completed. as part of this high level strategic cooperation meeting i'm extremely happy. to have. participated in this meeting i visited iran a short time ago. and we had completed the course such meeting in iran post the iranian. brothers. and the last time we got together was the blue tripartite. meeting on syria. and. for this is. this it carries with it a special meaning the. momentum with we have. captured will lead us to so lucian's matters. today with my brother mr rouhani we discussed the actual and regional matters. by later old trade well you. used to be eleven billion dollars in two thousand and seventeen by october two thousand and eighteen unfortunately this has. eight billion dollars. we have identified targets. concerni

gets more economic war with moscow we talk to russia's presidential commission and russia's trade on voice of the u.k. about british business in the largest country and that's all coming up in part two of going on the ground. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want. to go right to the pros this is what the before. can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. friendship. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. feeling dramatic developments only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. welcome back u.k. back ukrainian president petro poroshenko doesn't only want martial law he's today urging nato nations like britain to send warships to the sea of to provide security again. russia but here in london the talk at this week's russian british business forum in the queen elizabeth the second center media partnered by r.t.e. has been forging closer ties between russia and the u.k. we spoke to russian trade on voic

russia. next week, we're going to get a whole new narrative about flynn's crime, his cooperation or lack thereof and anything else they want to share, because they believe it will be of relevance to what kind of sentence he's going to end up getting. and it's sort of couldn't come at a better time. because all of a sudden, now, this week we the public just got a much clearer and frankly much more worrying view of the crime that mike flynn pled to, and maybe even why he might have done it. so i think this is worth focusing on intently. not only in terms of buttoning up what we learned over the course of this week, but what's about to come next. we know more shoes are going to drop, we know we're going to get more information from the special council's office in the next few days. focus in on this flynn thing for a second. mike flynn had some unusual russia ties during the campaign, right? he had visited at the russian government's behest, just as trump was declaring his run for president. soon

stoltenberg emphasizes the dangers of the missile russia has developed which goes beyond i.n.f. limitations on flight ranges it is hard to detect it is nuclear capable and it could reach european cities with little or no warning time numerous u.s. briefings have convinced european allies that moscow's missile arsenal makes a mockery of the treaty but even as europeans acknowledge that some are doubtful killing the i.n.f. willing crease their security this of course is of concern to europeans because the europeans are in the line of fire they're in the line of fire between the russian cruise missiles and of the united states decides to bring back was missed on the european continent who would be the first target europe so this is the interest friends secretary of state might pompei o shown here visiting nato in april was expected to formally announce i.m.f. withdrawal this week in brussels which would kick off a six month period until the exodus final but european leaders wanted a two month delay and their last minute interventions appear to have won out the announcement is now e

come to russia no one has ever known one has ever heard of and never even heard about. financially i don't fly i'm on it. as a lesson i buy it from the future trucker. back to the parts that makes him switch off associate professor at the most state institute of international relations and editor of all monetary side russian media coverage now max trump is a very prolific tweeter and many of his tweets are often ignored but i think in this particular case it's given more attention and more taken with more seriousness because of the resignation of jim mattis his secretary of defense who made it clear that they were very real policy differences between the two this is not the first high profile resignation i mean the he fires in the hires people of pretty much every month but do you thing it may cond with the larger consequences the old they either well you know the mat is resignation was in a way. forecasts that earlier this year because a lot of people expected him to leave the administration some said following the november midterm elections in the us early next year s

so there has been a cost to our russia fixation. how did everybody in america with an ivy league education simultaneously go insane in the space of a single year? was there some kind of mass poisoning, was erica chisholm? did it happen in medieval france? we will let historians sort that out, but all we know for certain is that the people in charge have lost it, they really have. if you don't believe it, listen to them explain the intricacies of the russia conspiracy. it's so complex and riddled with contradictions, it sounded like a contradiction. to them, russia is the touchstone, the comprehensive theory of everything. it really could have been any night on cable news. nbc, cnn, take your pick. we happen to be watching around 11 and we are bringing that. it's called the 11th hour. up malcolm nance identifies himself as a 35 year veteran of counterintelligence work. his most recent book is called the plot to pack america. the second man you are about to see is brian williams who of course needs no introduction. he was an anchor of

so to save around one goes to russia and the crisis do you agree with that assessment did russia come out on top? >> it is not round one but it is around one it is a continuation of the effort to influence ukraine for sure with the tactical advantages and to occupy crimea is a huge move. and with that political agenda so tactically in crimea though had that disadvantage for those sanctions to be imposed to make the arguments by referencing the fact showing what happens in crimea. turning that tactical advantage against them and then to caution to be successful in 2014 to have those european businesses hurt so then you have to put on the table showing that you would be willing to share the pain economically. and the key to surviving and that has to have cooperation. and everyday risk at being unraveled so that is the other advocacy so if all those sanctions are what europeans have to suffer so that we don't keep losing to the bigger challenge we know present tramp canceled the meeting with vladimir putin at the g 20 what about treating diplomatic engagement. >> and with that diplomatic

gerry: when people look at russia and the policies toward russia. there seems to be a disconnect between the sanctions, the diplomatic axes, your language, secretary mattis and secretary pompeo and the president himself. the president seems to be reluctant to engage in the kind of verbal diplomacy that you do. he seems to have a particular relationship with president putin that seems to be at odds with the policy. >> i think our policy towards russia has been extraordinarily strong. the president values his personal relationships with leaders all over the world. with the sad news of president george h.w. bush's death, i remember being in the state department with jim baker work for him when president bush was doing some extraordinary things around the world. and the foreign service officers at the state department called president bush the mad dialer because he was constantly calling foreign leaders. he knew them all. he would conduct diplomacy with them personally. and i think president trump sees it the same way. gerry: the helsinki summit. the pr

if you look at the investment you will find out that russia was european guy that is are involved in a number of large skeel medium scale small scale but if you look at the large scale you play in the atomic uclear plants construction in hungary in finland you will see in those three mm projects going on you will see. growing competition at the border between the russian and the european union you will see of course cooperation and support from russia in the current plan of increasing the it all. which was recently introduced by the euro commission so we. it is because i'm a patients where we can't really put it presents let's wait. some time and go away start to talk about the reasons in the economic relief and so we see that we can between the russia and the european union so what we need to do going forward we need to concentrate on the me we have concentrate on those projects we. put into your russian with a repeal you know that is. projects. in create in the vase months in joint work you know technological and a lot of this and of course. we listen to just the noise and bustle o

russia. that only. idiots can believe that is a way back in the one once you mentioned put his name and you had your introduction to that man long before many other people did because i read somewhere that you were served coffee by him when he was still deputy mayor or perhaps even an assistant to the mayor of st petersburg administration what was so memorable about that event that made you remember why would do you. that in my his boss the man who introduced both vladimir putin. did meet him it did if the politics was. the subject he was my friend. and people have to remember after the putsch the coup de ta. in nineteen ninety one mountain for war. became the second most popular leader of the bodies hilson and that's when amit put in the first time that i had been publishing a book it was called return to europe about russia and i gave it to some shock in small may well lenin was in charge of the revolution. and we were sitting bickering a bit about freedom in russia and i said toward alexandrovitch yo

good to have you with us tonight the united states is rattling its saber at russia the u.s. and its nato allies say that russia has been violating the landmark one nine hundred eighty seven intermediate range nuclear forces suspend its treaty obligations after a meeting of nato foreign ministers spoke about the wider implications of russia's alleged violations flow russia is responsible for the demise of the treaty and many other states including china north korea and iran are not parties to the i.n.f. treaty this leaves them free to build all the in all the intermediate range missiles that they would like. there is no reason the united states that continue to see this crucial military advantage to rotation has powers like china in particular when these weapons are being used to threaten and coerce the united states and its allies in asia. that was my home peo they are now home peo and other nato foreign ministers they've been discussing how to save the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty the alliance says that a new russian cruise missile violates that treaty and the t

that is how we deal with russia. we do not do strong diplomatic measures or any informational measures. military measures so we do not provoke or accelerate the problem and hit them with sanctions. that is what we always do. i would offer that my overview of our response to any of these actions, be it cracked me up -- be it crimea or the shootdown of mh-17, we have responded in a anded way with sanctions have not taken those broader, diplomatic informational and military steps that we should have taken. it might then jump out to you what i might suggest that we do. first, we have to decide, publicly that we have to confront these actions. if we do not confront these we expecthy would them to change? it is not logical to follow. realize thated to the sanctions alone will not and have not changed russian behavior. tord, as americans, we need re-and -- reinsert ourselves into the thought and action leader sip positions in these -- leadership positions in these matters. right, wrong, or indifferent, i placed no judgment

russia is not a the look on. europe is not. based on theories but. somebody on the web creating an injury sources indoors so i believe that we should think about switching at least two euro and go to see which is more common russians and or the europeans mr ashton your government body is called the ministry of economic development what or who is the greatest enemy of the economic development in russia inside the country and outside the country well. if you look once again on the you know just on the statistics you'll find that the do you more would have here is one of the key challenges because of the those transferred to a form to ninety's of the previous century and the heating of the one they mean and we have limited. supply of new labor coming into market so. solving the world's. interest will of course will be just talk harp and it will be a long lasting you know effect the fall of a new meter that is implemented in this area so this is one of the factors which is substantially missing the good old story the second story is of course all the fac

between putin and trump and the fact that russia wanted trump in the office. well i think larry you and i are what's called veterans of the previous cold war which lasted forty years it's kind of nice to talk with someone approximately of my generation i'm old women you cause the oil i don't know about that good you look but you look better so where are the same generation the point is is that the younger generation didn't live through the preceding cold war it's history to them so they don't understand or feel the need to explain how we ended up in a new cold war particularly since we were told you and i and we told our kids who are now in their twenty's when the soviet union and communism ended in one thousand nine hundred one we were now going to have friendship and partnership in fact clinton's presidency bill clinton's presidency his policy with boris yeltsin then president a post soviet russia was premised on this notion that we now have and i quote a strategic partnership and friendship with russia and yet today what is it i can't do the math but going

and russia have over russia interfering with our election. thereafter, flynn and other people within trump's transition team say that flynn told them that flynn didn't actually have those conversations. that creates a counter intelligence worry for the fbi, right? if the ignacious column is correct and those conversations happened between flynn and russia, russia knows they happened, they were in on the calls. and if those conversations did happen, and russia knows they happen, flynn's lying about them. that's a counter intelligence problem. the fbi handles counter intelligence issues in the united states. if the national security adviser of the united states is telling lies about something, trying to cover something up, and russia knows the truth about it, and russia knows he's lying about it, they can lord that over him, right? they can potentially blackmail him with that, they can threaten him to expose that thing, since they know he wants to cover it up. the fbi handles counterintelligence measures. they want to find out if what flynn rep

collusion, russia conspiracy talk as being make-believe, i mean, .-ellipsis real at that point. you know, the scoop that you and your colleagues had about michael flynn having to discuss sanctions with the russians ambassador came in the face of very firm, repeated denials to the "washington post" that he had actually done so and you write about what was going on back at the paper about whether to run with the story or not. to you all had what, nine sources saying that this it actually happened? that's a lot of sources. want to talk a little bit about the decision to go with that story in the face of flynn's denials. >> absolutely. that was such a dramatic moment and i felt like-- i don't do it a lot. this isn't like all the presidents men, but i do to turn the camera back inside the newsroom and a few critical places and that is one of them because it was so dramatic just how things were unfolding for us as we were trying to get to the bottom of this, so needless to say when you are going to accuse the national security advisor of line to the americ

inside of russia. different from the chaos immediately after the soviet union broke apart the presidential leaders. and not just for grabbing territory but to change the political rules of the game and is brighter for the dangerous reasons i was pointing out. it makes it politically and militarily unpredictable in ways that a more capable and more assertive russia has demonstrated is willing to entertain. >> ambassador, you just wrote in the "washington post" that nato should expand it presence in the black sea. what about the sea of dream three. steve blake showed -- is this legal and is it wise? >> i think it is not legal under the bilateral agreement 2003 that say russia gets too clear on any request by third countries to pass through the streets into the sea of azov. obviously their serous operational constraints in a very shallow body of water and very few if any navy vessels could actually go in there and operate. would it be a wise move? that's more debatable. i think given it's the only theoret

borders and it's on russia's borders now in the baltic states in ukraine what did they think russia's reaction was going to be well ok fine put all your weapons on our border or we'll forget about the german invasion in one hundred forty one we don't have any memory of russia to move any power anywhere so march of world to the expansion of nato that's the original sentence now there have been other of its and you could say well russia reacted on watchfully maybe so but i would argue. in response to all this talk that putin is an aggressive foreign policy leader that on the contrary he's a reactive leader and in fact i was in moscow two weeks ago i guess policy class in moscow who is criticized for being too reactive not anticipating what the west was going to do i think that's how historians will write in this what these last fourteen or fifteen years you know that's interesting when you mention you know how we're going to look back on these you know last fourteen or fifteen years and to me what what or what is the biggest misconception that's either under reported or just not being t

a difference between the united states on russia is very important russia actually protects its own territory and try to balance. the poor he sees of nato and united states all around eurasia because v. object of the united states that that would. to incite her to eurasia and to frogman eurasia in order to russia and china doesn't become too powerful enough and tool to still be. the first power or a global leader and this is why you russia tries to. talk to the every party see of for preventing a vicious and psycho raiment of eurasia and and trying to balance your offensive posture of united system nato for example of this is very united states who with who first the rift from the a.b.m. treaty that treaty in two thousand and one and then the i.n.f. treaty saw a vision.

mimic the approach of russia and china. this idea that states have a sovereign right to kole record censor information within their boredded. frankly that is a vision that is incompatable with american values and our constitution. what i am saying is we need to confront the fact that our adversaries have been approach that considers control of information an essential come opinion net of their overall domestic as well as offensive defensive and offensive strategies. we have not only failed to recognize the situation over the last two decade but we have particularly tended to downplay and minimize the dangers. the 2016 presidential campaign was wakeup call for cyber attacks and information operations. people keep warning in, and today being december 7th, of a digital pearl harbor or 9/11, as if there will be a single act that will wake the country and make us take action front these issues. i think i know and many of you in this room know as well, we're already living those events on a daily basis. look, simply look at the 2

russia sarris russia russia has always been under sanctions all forms there are restrictions put in place by enemies put in place by a hostile nations less than friendly nations who want to contain russians are prevented from developing from becoming too. powerful growing in strength and my colleague who's in that auditorium he could ask his question and tying into that he said mr putin what do you think of the reaction to the murder of the journalist shoji and the attempted poisonings of the script howls of putin said. he was assassinated everyone knows that there is evidence script is alive however there are sanctions against russia and complete silence in the case of saudi arabia this politicized russia phobic approach is just another reason to attack russia if it was not script how they would have thought of something else this is obvious to me and the aim is one to hold russia's growth at any cost. ukrainian journalists also frequent guests in this q. and a session often very nationalistic waving banners and flags that make sure sorry we have to interrupt because it's just a ve

to want russia on board because the u.s. already knows u.s. allies will be on board with that the same way or russia knows that russian allies will be on board an arab snow that arab allies will be on board with certain resolutions and it's a lot of the political game and what publicly should be the the position or strategy of the people in the u.n. general assembly. big situation unfolding in costa rica that's where we go next it is where several hundreds. protested against the country's president daniel ortega. from testers are demanding that ortega stall the repression of media and civil rights of nicaraguans have fled to costa rica since the i break of government protests more than three hundred people have been killed and i think you are of civil unrest in september that made street protest illegal human rights watch has criticized the raids on opposition media on the closure of rights organizations. you know all the neighbor hundreds just to the north. the country is also accused of similar violations but there's a common trust and how t