or ukraine but stupid china. that is a strategic problem. and i suspect that moscow and doesn't want to increase the fight with the policies. >> and what is different today and bring about a change for the better we have a russian president who maintains relations with those living standards and the russian people not put up with that so we have to we are not doomed in this spiral forever the with a strategic competition. >>. >> i completely agree. >> so it comes back to have a strategic interest with the left trajectory with rising china more? and if you distinguish between russian national interest? with that corrupt political economic system in russia. but what is a way maybe not after the election so it is personal. so with that form of putin's him it is real in the minds of the kremlin they saw at that as a threat that we need to take seriously it is deeply embedded not just what we hope for. >> we would love to talk to you 30 more minutes. >> when you get up i need your identity and the question. no stateme

we need to take the next steps for ukraine for the allies around ukraine more militarily viable. it's not my word but i like it. a friend of mine said we need to make ukraine the type of porcupine that russia cannot swallow we need to sharpen those tools and capabilities so russia sees it is too expensive and it is very clear about cost and i would add to that with their soldiers this is what they've had to worry about and we need to make ukraine the porcupine. i happen to believe every nation has a right to defend itself. additionally in military measures before i became the yukon commander and during the time that you calm staff in the us bilateral sense with ukrainian military how to professionalize and improve ukrainian military forces we don't have to be hugely creative there has already been very creative staff work done that can be fallen back on to look at those things that we can do. that can lead ukraine to be that porcupine. we need to address the growing anti- access capabilities of crimea the picture is in the paper the last two days you should now cs 400 on crimea a

waters ukraine, russia legally share. six members were injured and all 24 of them were detained and are still in russian custody. this attack marks significant escalation in russia's war against ukraine. it is the first time the kremlin has overtly used its armed forces against ukraine. several western countries, the european union and nato have condemned russia's aggression against ukraine but a comprehensive response has yet to take shape. we're gathering at a pretty important time on the heels of a nato formal minister discussion in brussels on this issue. but we also gather when there is a time of intense debate here in washington. there's a current debate happening inside the executive branch up on capitol hill about these events, about our response. and our intention today is to help inform that conversation and to shape these decisions. our panelists will surely touch on a response must take shape soon if russia's government is going to take this seriously. many of the experts you'll hear from today and many others

with big war or big in region of russia and ukraine -- big invasion of russia and to ukraine? being ashamedelf speaking russian in europe, and i am russian. the responsehink should have been or what would be a proper response? gen. breedlove: i will not satisfy on that, but i think the things that impede russia from attacking on ukraine, it would be a huge step, a costly step. i do also believe that mr. putin has done more damage for himself and the russian people inside of ukraine than even he understands. i think there are many other impediments. i do not place new is much emphasis on nord stream as the collective here apparently does. i go back to my answer. i think we do not have to go lessfar back in history, than the last five years, to understand how russia uses energy supply, energy dynamics, pricing, etc., as a weapon. my suggestion to nations in don't put the weapon through your own hands. mh17, first and foremost, we should have done something right then. without assertion, going beyond where we can talk, i cannot give any great proof, but it is my assertion that we

and is ukraine efforts. a great friend and colleague who serve at the highest levels of the white house handling russia policy in the previous stigmatization is now president and ceo of the use russia foundation and, of course, ambassador alexander, former ambassador to russia deputy secretary-general of native among many others. running the show today is one of our very own melinda was an editor extraordinaire who leads the wildly successful ukraine of the blog. i hope you all enjoy this conversation dick we are looking for to not only the specific ideas and recommendations the team has picked is not attached response the requires short-term tactical replies. this is part of something that is again a reminder of an absence of a comprehensive strategy to deal with crewmen will be gathering again and again for conversations so how do we write that sugar let me turn over to melinda. >> good afternoon. i'm delighted to be here with four of i think the top experts in the united states to discuss this very timely

even all over ukraine but you know it's not it's not. inform does information doesn't doesn't go to the let's say of information wall of the mainstream media's. bruno great to have you on appreciate it time political analyst bruno dress skeet like. french judges of called off a two decade long probe into the deadly attack on the former rwandan president's plane which ultimately led to the genocide in one thousand nine hundred investigation was a stumbling block between the two countries it was looking into several rwandan officials close to the current president in connection with the death of the country's former leader a decision comes after reports that france also rejected a bid by human rights groups to reopen a separate probe into whether the french military shared any of the blame for the deaths of hundreds of people they'd promise to rescue. today we're being asked to leave with the people who killed our families were told they're sorry they will do it again and some people believe that i'm not one of. the fighting was triggered

as both russia and ukraine to the brink of open conflict. also. i. to day recovering off the riots in a decade. of the big stories we covered for you over the last seven days and it was argentina that many of the news crews headed to us included for the big g. twenty summit if i had to conclude it just yet. today borders are as they deserve are tackling a raft of crucial issues including the u.s. china trade war ukraine and strengthen cooperation. most the highlights the u.s. president held a keenly watched meeting with his chinese counterpart at the summit on saturday but neither gave a news conference afterwards unlike those two leaders the russian president did talk to reporters to share his thoughts on the gathering in south america it was in the argentine capital covering it all for us. one of the top reasons why this g twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber is the one on one between the man whose limo is parked right there it's about to depart the russian president vladimir putin and his american counterpart donald trump but jus

for ukraine. did do is what we always do when we have issues with russia and that is, in all respect to, i called the abbasid are my professor occasionally, what we did is sanctions. that is how we deal with russia. we do not do strong diplomatic measures or informational measures. we do very weak military measures so we do not provoke or exacerbate the problem. i would offer to you that my overview of our response to any of these actions, be it crimea, the dumas, or the shootdown of mh 17 is we have responded in a in the economic sphere with sanctions and we have not taken the broader diplomatic, informational, and military steps that we might should have taken. so, it might then jumped out to you what i would suggest that we do today. first, i think that we have to decide publicly that we have to confront these actions. if we do not confront these things -- these actions, why would we expect them to change? it just is not logical to follow. second, we need to realize these sanctions alone will n

china trade war ukraine and strengthening cooperation. the u.s. president had a keenly watched meeting with his chinese counterpart at the summit but neither govern news conference afterwards the russian president did talk to reporters though to share his thoughts on the gathering and when also areas from where the report. one of the top reasons why this g twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber is the one on one between the man who's parked right there it's about to depart the russian president vladimir putin and his american counterpart donald trump but just one day before the summit kicked off donald trump sent all of us into breaking news mode by tweeting out right from on board air force one i won't meet with putin because of ukraine and we were all left guessing whether they'll at least shake hands or have some sort of little chat then finally on saturday the russian president's spokesperson confirmed that a little chat happened somewhere on the sidelines of the g. twenty event everyone was hoping to ask president about it at

ukraine returning accusations to the russians but this one is in regard to an assertion from ukraine that russia could be planning attacks on but jan ski that's the ports on the on the in the in the in this sea between crimea and here the important important link in terms of military action between the crimean peninsula and ukraine this is an assertion that the could be action against but gents and also marry a pole those two important ports by the russians in order to get all non corridor to the next crimea peninsula it's being. asked to side by the kremlin is absurd and federal peskov the kremlin spokesman said that was an attempt to up the tension also we're hearing now that confirmation of charges of illegally entering russian territory that have been leveled at the twenty four ukrainians most of them sailors but also intelligence officers from the s.b.u. that's the latest from russia in terms of it's pointing the finger at ukraine it upping the tension what about these moves to train up reservists attard how is that going to roll out. well what we're seeing is here is the word m

as it is each week kiribati ukraine and because ukraine is our neighbor. it's funny because there's me to push. day to go. mr president. so this community with the crown prince of saudi arabia has to several questions first of all so you were able to coordinate all get real joined position on the opec plus deal are you going to further reduce oil production. if the current that it prices for oil continues what did you talk about the. journalist killed in istanbul and. could you please tell about the as far as the situation with the saudi journalist and his murder in turkey's concern to the crown prince talked about this at the first meeting of the g twenty he spoke about this incident himself and he has presented his position on this issue. now as regards oil prices and our deal is yes we have a deal to extend our cooperation. to extend this deal. and we have not ordinated de production levels but we will work on that with the saudi arabia and regardless of the final figure. once this final decision is made we've agreed to monitor the situation on the mark

stern powers dealing with ukraine understand very well that ukraine is trying to maneuver the west into a more aggressive and direct confrontation. with with russia over ukraine so this is certainly not new this is. been the pattern not only for the last four years one could go back to previous presidents of ukraine most notably that you should. and. and it is it is a policy that is under has been understood as such. the main thing to understand is that that is not a position which is necessarily uncomfortable to many western politicians so it's a you think they're totally fine for example angela merkel who publicly of peace talks about the need to solve the ukrainian conflict as soon as possible do you think she's perfectly fine with president poroshenko pulling such a trick on the eve of his own presidential elections and hopefully perhaps at least with the hope of dragging europe and the united states into a direct confrontation with russia i take it as a good sign that. western political leaders are aware of the desire of ukrainian politicians to manipulate them because then they re

martial law was imposed in ukraine after russia seizes three ships off the coast of crimea. i. and paris reels from its worst unrest in a decade as the so-called gallo best movement keeps up the pressure on the government over rising fuel prices. thanks for joining us you're watching weekly here on r.t. international live from moscow i'm daniel hawkins wherever you are welcome to the program from trade wars to climate change the leaders of the world's biggest economies have been pushing some very different agendas at the g. twenty summit two days of talks one up and burnside is on saturday and our crew was of course there giving you all the latest information. on the. china and the u.s. have agreed to halt any new tariffs for ninety days she jinping and donald trump met on day two of the g. twenty summit in argentina neither one though gave a news briefing afterwards however the russian president did speak to reporters he gave his views on the summit and did a patrol go was there in the argentine capital with the latest. one of the top reasons why this g twenty summit was meant

continue to provide economic aid to ukraine ukraine received three point three billion euros since the start of the war which makes it the biggest recipient outside of the you all of you in the last forty seconds and cyprus here the expected there could be another provocation like we saw at the current strait i mean to get donald trump's attention. well i there got me with part a should go there could be but i think with the current street provocation did for donald trump is that it provided a very good excuse for him not to be with the latter group who did it in argentina and i say that because it wasn't so much the current street incident it was everything else that was happening in the u.s. the media attention that would if it donald trump if he had met with the mueller indictments all of these things so they could provide a trump with a little bit of an excuse to not have that photo op with ok i'm going to jump in here it looks like it looks like miller is running donald trump foreign policy if we go to a short break right now and when we return we'll be discussing more real news.

ukraine to the brink of. three ships it's a. territorial also ahead. covering. more protests against higher fuel the yellow demonstrations and. we will have the stories that shape the past seven days a little later but first this weekend's developments international the g twenty summit has concluded in argentina with leaders time. crucial issues including the u.s. china trade war ukraine and strengthening cooperation. well on saturday the u.s. president held a keenly watched meeting with his chinese counterpart at the summit but neither gave a news conference afterwards like those two leaders the russian president did talk to reporters to share his thoughts on the gathering in buenos aires who is in the argentine capital. one of the top reasons why this g twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber is the one on one between the man whose limo is parked right there it's about to depart the russian president vladimir putin and his american counterpart donald trump but just one day before the summit kicked off donald trump sent all of us into breaking ne

so this could be perceived as calm for ukraine to carry out further provocation. well afterwards the russian deputy u.n. envoy told us he's disappointed with his western counterparts positions. and discovered that they were not very eager to discuss these countries situationally immediately changed to the alleged an extension of crimea by my country which we of course of ours for the night and i specifically mentioned that crimea was not topical security council agenda. i fear that after the western countries that have particularly influence on the ukraine are really displayed session or attitude to the ukrainian side might feel a little bit and bold and to engage in for as a pro occasions of these type because they haven't heard they didn't hear during the meeting and your approach is from from western side that they did something wrong. another chaotic weekend in paris the details of this. i think. donald trump following doubts of a meeting with vladimir putin doesn't seem like a big deal given the already polar state of affairs between the two countries plus th

in ukraine bans all russian men under the age of sixty from entering the country in the wake of last sunday's clash in the carriage straight. protest foresters moscow this is arch international thomas i'd like. to believe that. at the g twenty summit is under way in argentina and despite a cloud hanging over a number of big issues in strained alliances for the leaders there things appear to be getting off on the positive footing. you know. well when thursday the u.s. president doll hold the breaking news triggered by tweeting right on the plane i won't meet with. over ukraine the us administration work clearly trying to send a strong message to russia as they put it the aggression that we witnessed this week on acceptable and strong messages from some place. that was a strong message just through isolation isolation. and. well as you can see this for an isolation didn't quite work and this might be one of the reasons why the u.s. president donald trump is rather gloomy you could read it off his face all throughout his stay in argentina he didn't the family photos. he told off the tra

is relatively poor country things are are cheap in ukraine we think france is a very wealthy country but it's not for everyone a lot of french people and very low incomes and i believe the national minimum wage is something around fourteen thousand euros a year and as might seem like a lot to some people watching but it's not in france where you know a pint of beer is between six and eight euros and another issue in france which is also in ukraine is that in ukraine's provinces it's very very poor but kiev has always been relatively well off and a lot of people in ukraine were very resentful of this kind of elite in kiev who had to say going to car today going to shop are going to get you to buy their clothes you know and looking in these windows of shops they could never afford to go into and it's quite similar in france and in paris is one of the wealthiest cities in the world and if you're on fourteen thousand euros a year with big utility bills down in the provinces somewhere of course you can be resentful towards paris so the roof itself is not dissimilar let's look at the polit

this is about determining what kind of church should exist in ukraine. but church i go to war created by gold for a fold church that serves the devil that he. hardly any priests who belong to the russian branch attended the founding ceremony the new ukrainian church leader appealed to them to join. but it was the doors of our united ukrainian church will be open to all to see the ceremony ended with a rendition of ukraine's national anthem the already that relations between moscow and kiev are now worse. all right let's cross now to nick calmly who's standing by for us in kiev hi nick relations between k.f. and moscow have been steadily worse ningbo ukraine's new national church make things even worse now. good afternoon on your well it seems like those relations couldn't get much worse short of a full scale military conflict but this officer doesn't help we've had some furious reactions from moscow talking about schism i think the really interesting thing now will be to see how it plays out how ukraine treats the moscow patriarchy the russian church whi

coming up more recent post in ukraine after russia seizes ships off the coast of crimea. i. reels from its worst the rest than a decade does the so-called yellow vests movement keeps up the pressure on the government over rising fuel costs. thanks for joining us on the weekly on our team from ashland. you're very welcome with us on the program. from trade wars to climate change the leaders of the world's biggest economies have been pushing some very different agendas at the g. twenty summit two days of talks have just one. crew was there following all the action. china and the united states have agreed to halt any new tariffs for ninety days she paying and donald trump on day two of the g. twenty summit in argentina none of those gave a news briefing afterwards for the russian president did speak to reporters giving his views on the summit it was frank it was there in the time capsule one of the top reasons why this g twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber is the one on one between the man whose limo is parked right there it's about to depart the russian pres

the global concern us russia and ukraine are brought to the brink of open conflict after moscow seizes three ships violated its territorial waters also a. part of this is recovering after the worst riots in a decade sparked by more protests against higher fuel taxes the yellow face demonstrations in france are now into their third. of the stories that shaped the past seven days a little later but first to this weekend's developments on r.t.e. international the g twenty summit has concluded in argentina with leaders tackling a raft of crucial issues including the us china trade war ukraine and strengthening cooperation. mean the u.s. president held a cane lee watch meeting with his chinese counterpart at the summit but neither gave a news conference afterwards unlike those two leaders the russian president did talk to reporters to share his thoughts on the gathering in buenos aires. is in the argentine capital. one of the top reasons why this g twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber is the one on one between the man whose limo is parked right there it's about to depart t

china trade war the ukraine crisis and strengthening international cooperation the u.s. president had a key meeting with his chinese counterpart but need to give a news conference afterwards the russian president did talk to reporters though to share his thoughts on the gathering and one else aries trying to now report. one of the top reasons if not the top one why this g twenty summit was meant to be a real attention grabber was the planned one on one between the man whose limo is parked right there that is the russian president vladimir putin and his american counterpart donald trump however just one day before the summit began the american president really put all of us in breaking news mode by tweeting out right when he was on the plane to argentina i won't meet with putin over ukraine the journalists were left guessing whether at least they'll shake hands or maybe have a little chat on the sidelines and finally on saturday lattimer putin spokesperson confirmed that this quick chat happened and everyone was hoping to ask president trump about it at his press event ho

book optimist i remain an optimist he writes that the only solution to the conflict in ukraine is the fulfilling of the two diplomatic process russia has been failing to do not because the pro russian. separatists in south east your crane should be. cooled down doubt 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 read how police say the debris is new doctrine defending the invasion of czechoslovakia twenty first of august one is it that was said that that was why he did. i think that putin felt an infringement the nato enlargement again towards the east infringed russia however yes i do think that the russians panicked because i was in kiev i broke all of my coverage should go limp again since or she going to t. of the bloodbath ninety people were killed by the. don't know at this point who actually was there i saw where the snipers one day while on the roof of the government and on. front of the february two thousand and fourteen i counted fifty people killed in front

over ukraine the u.s. administration work clearly trying to send a strong message to russia as they put it the aggression that we witnessed this week on acceptable and strong messages from some place. that was a strong message. isolation isolation. and . well as you can see this for an isolation didn't quite work and this might be one of the reasons why the u.s. president. is rather gloomy you could read it off his face all throughout his stay in argentina he didn't join the family photos. he pulled off the translator as he was being welcomed by the argentinean leader and he's just frowning all the time here in. the russian side have said that they actually regret that they cannot have direct contact with the u.s. peter however they're not making a big deal out of it and vladimir putin the house plenty of other things to do here the argentine capital for instance he's always. with the leaders of. part of the ball. used to hit the countries whose favorite international politics is. unfair competing practice

a night to provides a strong political support unsterile practical support to ukraine ukraine is not a nato member but we strongly support ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. we also call on russia to. release the sailors on the ships they have. detained or ceased and nato allies will also continue to help to modernize and strengthen the ukrainian armed forces. well you heard a young stoltenberg talking about the practical and political support that the nato alliance is giving ukraine at the moment and really that's where it seems to end because or asked whether or not nato might consider sending ships to back up ukraine that was something that the ukrainian president had are asked for last week well and stauffenberg has given no indication that nato would be prepared to do that of course as i said this is an alliance that does not want to make the situation worse and does not want to enter into any naval military confrontation with russia that it can avoid the special many thanks to such a butler live in brussels. weather update next i have zero then the mystery of the

moment russia has many times more ships in this region in ukraine whether that's coast guard f.s.b. security service vessels or russia's black sea fleet you just can't compare it. to . the ships captured by russia would you to join ukraine's naval forces in very many you know the men taken prisoner personally but sailors were not allowed to speak to us on camera most of them began their service in crimea where ukraine's navy was once based. mary posed the city the sailors are called on to defend home to nearly half a million people mariposa stands in the shadow of the front line its future depends on the ability of these huge steel plants to supply the rest of the world keeping tens of thousands of people in work but that's now under threat ukraine accuses russia of trying to suffocate the region economically using trumped up security checks to bring civilian shipping to a standstill these checks can take weeks and i've already seen many international shipping companies decide to stay. clear of the as of c all together. even though the scars of the last conflict is still visible her

another exchange of accusations between ukraine and russia from the president here. earlier. the kremlin keeps testing the limits of the global order checking whether the world will accept turning the hours of sea and the black sea into a russian lake it's an enormous threat. russia says poroshenko has words are absurd the ukrainian president had a photo call with new deliveries of military hardware as the kremlin accused him of trying to generate tension prashant go is making a partial call up of reservists but at the same time stressing it is an mobilization that will only happen if russia invades he says. but some veterans of ukraine's war with pro russian separatists say there's confusion about martial law this is a memorial service for fallen soldiers attended by nationalists. the gun salute and the sentiment maybe in honor of the dead however there's an underlying theme here it's political and very right wing. with slick promotional videos in place of recruitment drives this group is called the national corpus of vigilante movement after the ukrainian uprising

of many attendees say the deal just doesn't go far enough also coming up spiritual independence in ukraine yet fulfills a centuries old dream of creating a united orthodox church independent from russia moscow is not amused. and in the bundesliga dortmund look on stoppable the league leaders extend their unbeaten run to fifteen games as they strike twice within seven minutes to edge out better brain . i'm carl aspen thanks for joining us talks on climate change in poland finally produced an agreement late last night nearly two hundred countries unanimously adopted a rulebook allowing the paris climate act to become operational by twenty twenty the chairman of the conference called it a historic moment but critics say the agreement doesn't go far enough. it is so decided. there was physical relief when two weeks of intense negotiations finally came to an end in qatar the. delegates from almost two hundred countries had to overcome major divisions in their quest to reduce global warming while protecting the economies of rich and poor countries alike who are very satisfied as you may have hea

and against ukraine. it will be more precise reflects is going on. and it will act to the notion of aggression of the resolution of the united nations federal assembly. so, if we are speaking about political and legal instruments in international are not used enough to enhance what they already can do. what do i need? for example, the maritime international organization there is also the [inaudible] there is the danube convention and a lot of stuff has to be done and there is the possibility to exclude russian from different government borders with the organization itself but in most organizations a lot of countries majority of countries is suggest no one. >> my question is what do you think has to be done by russia for everybody to understand the necessity to create into russia coalition or at least the task force which deal with the ukrainian problem and which would act to the russian aggression? thank you. >> not criticizing but after all that i think what you asked is what is the next step that russia

ukraine after russia sees. crimea.

orthodox priests in ukraine have established an independent national church the move has angered the russian orthodox church which controlled the ukrainian branch for over three hundred years ukraine's president petro poroshenko hailed the decision saying it was a further declaration of independence from russia relations between the two countries collapsed after moscow's and say sion of the main and twenty four team gives as russian back to churches on its soil. to spread and. earlier i spoke to correspondent nick connelly in kiev i asked him if ukraine's new national church would make relations between kiev and moscow even worse seems like they couldn't get much worse given the standoff we're in with russia here since well basically for years but based on the furious reaction we've had from moscow it does seem there is further to fall real extraordinary emotional statements coming from moscow since this happened yesterday calling all of these meetings illegitimate and calling on ukraine to kind of throw it all in something that's unlikely to happen i think the really important thing