russia. completion of this transaction would be devastating. not only is the f 35 program, but it would rupture turkish inner operability. it is incon siekoconceivable th would not take advantage of that collection opportunity. their intervention in syria has caused rippling ramifications and facilitated one of russia's key goals under mining nato cohesion. finally to our european partners, we urge them to see that russia is an unreliable partner. russia shows they cannot be trusted when true choices need to be made and friends need to be known. unlike the relationship with the united states it's military sales do nots come with long-term commitments of maintenance and sustainment. russia is a transaction all in partner seeking their own benefit. they thrive in chaos and they do not seek the best interests of their transactional partners. any regime that thrives in chaos cannot be trusted to strive for stability. related to this i want to highlight the adversaries through sanctions act. this

the food import ban put in place by russia in august 24th. was a response to several political and economic sanctions imposed by the u.s. and the european union. to tretton to push a huge number of firms to the brink of ruin and dad urged people to take to the streets of european cities. when i was. ok i want to. know. if yes. ok. i don't know this but. it's. close enough. to go.

there but the idea that russia and china are going to constitute. take on american banks across america is of course. the chinese the last achieve nothing short of an economic miracle and. it's relationship with china so the chinese will not do anything that could jeopardize their economic so i would describe the relationship and china as something like i think it's good for global peace think it's good for global stability and china more allies they are i think that's a very good point and i actually that is my position as well you know given we've heard a lot about this relationship and some people called strategic partnership there's been a lot of words ok trade is up ticking but it's still relatively small when you can compare the kind of trade that russia still has with europe so i mean are our actions now finally catching up with words well i think there is this in fact correlation this union between russia and china would have never been possible if it hadn't been for the conduct of the west and they don't mean just the united states i mean a

and the russia. the united states must continue to support ukraine's democratic path, its euro atlantic future and its ability to defend itself. deterrence of an increasingly aggressive russia must start in ukraine. the kremlin seeks to keep ukraine in a so-called permanent gray zone. to do so, russia continues to destabilize ukraine in conventional and non-conventional means. today i am going to focus my comments on the non-conventional warfare against ukraine, ukraines problems challenges and reforms and what the u.s. should do to continue ukraine's progress. one comment on the threat. russia continues to occupy and militaryize ukraine's crimea peninsula. over the last 18 months we have seen a steady and significant build up of russian military capabilities in crimea and the surrounding waters. in january 2017 russia began deploying s-400 surface the air missiles to crimea. since then, at least five known had 00 armed battalions have been positioned in crimea. this means that with the s 400 presenc

it was supposed to be at the prime ministerial level for some reason this year and 2nd in 2015 when russia and china commemorated they were victory days in may and in september the end of huge tremendous suffering you know the 2 nations that lost moved during that war the western leaders didn't come our bomber was invited he didn't come to moscow he didn't come to be even though he was invited so now when they're mainstream western press is heaping all criticism on trump well i think grampa has been behaving very badly in the last few years but it all started under obama so you know talking about this and ha needs trade war and other things i think the relationship between their liberal establishment and trump is like the relationship between dr jekyll and mr hyde crump is doing all this something that the liberal elite has started doing secretly but they are bombing did not include china in the transpacific partnership or that was armor and that was intentional absolutely he did not include russia he did not include china he did not include the 2 biggest nations or west pacific into trans

russia we just dropped the ball. we had a massive, massive analytical underpinning to our approach to trying to understand russia, and it basically hit the floor. most of the russian analysts in the ic went to something, and the intelligence committee went to counterinsurgency or counterterrorism and they retired. i was given the job back in 2015 by deputy secretary worth to fix russia. that is to say, fixed longitudinal depth in the learning and studying them all the way along, we had about a 15-year gap we had to fill in. so i set up a duty of doing that. so ignoring that was a big, big problem, and we have people up here who have not been doing that, so maybe you can avail yourself of that. number four. number four and the biggest problem, the biggest pathology of victory is wishful thinking. when you think you're the victor and when you have triumphalism, you just try to explain it away in wishful thinking. wishful thinking just infuses our talk when we're dealing with the rise of these major power competitors. s

every leg of russia's triad is modernized in russia's new system. including silo based intercontinental missiles, a submarine launched ballistic missile and upgraded strategic nuclear bomber and air cruise missile. and many of them have greater warhead delivery capacity than the systems they're replacing. for example, russia's aging ss-25 red mobile icbm carries a single nuclear warhead while its replacement ss-27 can carry multiple warheads providing russia significant capability to upload additional warheads to a strategic delivery system. the ss-18, russia's aging heavy icbm carries up to 10 nuclear warheads. although the russian president complained that the sarmot its replacement carries even more warheads and will be capable of carrying a hyper sonic. and this upload capacity will give russia the ability to increase the number of warheads in the time of crisis. russia's also pursuing novel nuclear delivery systems that create a strategic challenge for the u.s. and which are difficult to manage under the current arms control agreement. in march

china to russia. the united states has started a direct confrontation with its longtime challenger china exchanging tariffs on goods and using diplomacy to keep its competitors economy and trading ambitions in check but with the 2 largest economies entering into a standoff how will the rest of the world cope with the ripple effect the crumbling relations of the 2 superpowers lead to something a lot worse than just taxes. good afternoon your excellent seaward really happy to have your program today yes there are lots to discuss so let's get started. that the belgian wrote form in china the presidency said that russia and china face similar challenges and you know that they should develop in coordination to recommit this challenge and that side is developing at a far greater pace compared to russia that is there was so in your view how could russia and china coordinate or synchronize their of development. yes this is an interesting question. i am ready to answer as you know in may 2015. been our preside

taking its toll on how chinese can invest in russia chaney's make business in russia. businessman they are very careful you know the country is not not only in china and every businessman has to keep in mind all the factors all the elements that can influence their future so some chinese businessmen prefer to be more careful some of them are more proactive in their activities some of them are waiting some of them are building factories automotive factories in russia and one of those will be you know greeted during the visit of presidency in moscow would you say that we're not talking just chinese businessmen or investors and we're seeing general. people have found ways to go around sanctions and found loopholes and sections to actually do their business as usual with my shop not really well of course they're resisting difficult there is a certain certain influence of sanctions for for. various international but tangible investors in russia but then businessmen who can potentially launch their business here yes some of them or would prefer to be more cautious and then w

russia hacked into the pillar of our democracy russia is hacking and having gas currently and we did not mention exactly that did occur nobody is debating that that did or did not happen it did happen faith no need for evidence proof friend's ex or facts but as with every religion there are the tracks is doubtless one of them is roger stone a former advisor to the tribe paid now indicted for alleged witness tampering and making false statements all related to wiki leaks as part of his defense he has requested evidence that russia was behind the d.n.c. hacks of 2016 so the government gave them all they had a redacted draft report from a cyber security company it is clear that the government has relied on the assumptions made by a source outside of the us intelligence community that the russian state was involved in the hacking and that the data taken from the various servers were given to wiki leaks the government does not have the evidence and it knew it did not have the evidence when applied for these search warrants crowd strike the d.n.c. cyber security contractors what is amazing

is it actually growing the let's couple from russia. as you know but our leaders agreed that china and russia will develop their cooperation in various areas including economy and trade. and it is very important to push forward your economic cooperation and investments . but i can say that in recent years. china has been investing in the world actually more and more. have the exact right now but i can tell you that it's quite a significant increase. sometimes the economy follows its own legs you know just said that in the 1st half of 2018. down much a little bit and most likely there is another explanation for that for you this. for example a very important political event. took place in china last year. china's national people's congress if you put it in the 2nd half of the here investments went up and so are enthusiastic about our relations with russia continues to grow and grow significantly and i think that there are objective reasons for the slight drop in investments that we have. because in the 1st half of 2018. our agenda the mi

thank you again for your kind invitation to visit russia the relations between russia and china are developing staveley and at the moment they're at that peak both sides support each other so truly be sure to see. it to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day 75 years from d.-day it was on this day 75 years ago when 160000 allied troops embark on a world war 2 mission that most of them knew nothing about when d.-day had come and gone and thousands of lives holders had fallen on the beaches of normandy now we know how the story ended nazi germany was defeated and the allies won the war we live in the world and in the piece that began taking shape on d.-day today leaders of those wartime allies and were time enemies gathered in england in an emotional show of respect and remembrance it would be impossible to separate our present from our past on a day like today for halves it would be better to do so but then again if we did we would probably do so at our own peril tonight the lessons of the day do we remember them to. remembering those who ma

russia is becoming resurgent russia has been penalized by quite significant international tariffs since 2014 it desperately needs markets to sell its oil to to sell its energy to china is now more willing to embrace that would you say this is more of a transactional relationship rather than a shift in the entire foreign policy and global what world order. the cure and to russian cheney's relationship is not just about economic cooperation it's not just about increasing business. it is the action to the at them by washington to sideline and to weaken both china and russia as its geopolitical and economic competitors and of course we have seen not only these meetings between putin and being in the scene petersburg. the economic forum we have seen them at major military exercises several months ago between china and russia that took place in russia by the way mongolian military in the middle in military also took part in the exercises and that was a clear signal to washington and to its closest western allies that that that as long as pressure is going to be increased. against beaching and

wisdom sanctions against russia are affecting companies and industries but they also targeted russia's most influential businessman personally what's it like to be persona non-grata your own country. will trade ties between russia and the rest of the world survive the sanctions and is russian business adapting to its new reality ed you know the narrative well it's great to have you on our program at this really really happy because we have lots to talk about so there is no widespread idea in the west that slapping sanctions against certain people their assets their kompany will push those people to create an opposition to the russian president and that will eventually result in a policy change you're one of the 1st people who were hit by the sanctions and they mean they haven't been since then it's been 5 years and the sanctions haven't changed russia's stance at all how long are you ready just saying this pressure like forever. will probably be better without sanctions since it's easier to do business and sanctions do have a certain negative impact on the business. that we are living

last one on russia. i thought it was interesting that you talked about how the forces are designed to deter nato portraiture potentially defeats if it came to that and- in terms of the way they think about their nuclear force. to give us more information on that? how russia views china in this contest?>> in terms of competition, all of the nations look at every other nation as a potential competitor and they capabilities you would say his alliance there and there is a relationship private it as more transactional than anything else. when russia or china or the u.s. get those capabilities they develop in such a way that they can use them irrespective of who the enemy may be. to bring that out of the context that that is a possibility as well. let's switch over to china and i will take your questions. you said that they have tested more missiles than the rest of the world i think in one year? i would have to look, but in recent time. and my understanding is that has been their approach to the military trad

information from russia no corporation whatsoever that russia didn't explain anything and then admitting that they did indeed have received plenty of information and they had they even looked at it well have a listen yourself. if you look back you can establish that from the 1st day after the 17th of july the russian federation hasn't disclosed anything about what happened and that is a slap in the face to all the relatives of the victims and i call on them to start cooperating to tell us what happened there we received the information for murder russian federation from asian about a dismissal of the documents about a missile there we also received the rod or. that wasn't clear enough to say exactly what what's happened with the missile given this and didn't give us the right picture we prepared a short clip explaining what they what they received and what they are now saying wasn't clear enough doesn't paint a clear enough picture have a look the previous investigation so many triumphantly shouting accusations at russia but instead of trying to out yell its critics russia showed origina

not specifically when it comes to russia. we now know that started the first few days he was in office. it's the whole reason there are still sanctions on russia today. and now this week we learned that this far into the trump administration it's still happening. pentagon and intelligence officials are willing to tell "the new york times" now that they are literally not even telling him about new offensive capacities that cyber command have just developed to enable the u.s. military to shut off russia's lights if we want to. they didn't tell trump. they let him read about it "the times" whereupon he freaked out. can't be true. i mean, this idea of saving the country from the commander in chief, protecting national security interests from a president who is believed to pose a threat to them, i mean, that's -- that gets talked about a lot of the time as if it's still an abstract or like a future risk question. it turns out we are living in that era right now. that is happening right now and that is not supposed to be the way it

russia. but he's going there who are. moscow claimed they were liberating crimea from right wing extremists they said a taken over ukraine. russian troops and to tear it out of crimea to protect crimean people. to roar. near on that city reach our why. so it was. a good ratio protection of people. here we. can move he. will see it on the dollar store. only some years in a big theater and then asked us. if he did. ideally because a key. risible given in the ceiling in grass and a grain of honor while you can skip us but they are violent. because a movie in time to one of my daughters. it's there for the could in the deceased's district where you. stiff new face of sea meeting what's the stick in grozny of either me or you could go but stockholm cover season baby detail that. the russian forces had the right they claimed to protect the people it was not an extension of claim it was enjoying crimea and we saw russian it was disputed for the russian government to support crimean people because crimea people appeared to be on

but that's not how russia sees it a majority of crimea but ours was a good stride here to rejoin russia because as a cuban money people waited by a ukrainian are sort of just drink fewer us are seeing more and more see that russian garment are try to respect rights or crimea and others. like so many others jamil calico is unable to return to his home. he is the crimean tatars most famous musician and it was he who rediscovered their ancient and for. the locals the good to go on hold and have the option. group them up. my are his honest if there were so there again him lemme see in the millisecond their mother so many years with us was 1st on us is that was only one of them they could have chastised you but i was listening always in my eyes because i have asked them where they are and i will do that today and i doubt there will milligan and he let on as he ever was which among us not only responding today and had complied as then either give us that in the heathen and they were so literal not to. write a t.r. was a total hours on television station based in simferopol. but soon after the

in russia i think it was always understood the whenever we talk to regulators in russia the concept is i really want a regular. defined i really want to go back to that issue but before we do that. i have a sense that you do have a certain protection of the state authorities but. at least. some kind of environment distinguishes you from other companies and my suspicion is that because you are a major french star can i ask you straight do you think you have any backing any lobing from the french authorities when it comes to the russian regulation because there are many attempts to undermine your business here through courts through complaints through appeals to the prosecutorial office but you've always been spared as you said you are now part of a major government efforts you drive the legislation and that doesn't happen in russia way too often when business is directly involved in drafting something like that we know is driving it obviously we've been doing it in several countries to you it's pretty logical that you get involved i mean for the regulation to to make sense. the relation

we will think about both russia and china today, with russia's particular expertise. frank rose, my colleague at brookings -- what i will say about frank as he was hired into a job that many of us historically have thought of as one of the arms control brookings, but that's not really how frank thinks of himself. he thinks of himself as a strategic planner, where arms control is an element of american strategy, one tool in the toolkit but not the only one. the best way to underscore that is to point out that frank is one of the few people in washington who has been knighted in the country of romania. you might ask why. it's not because he helped kill transylvanian ghosts back in some battle, unless he has even more of a rich repertoire of pastor compliments than i'm aware, it's because he was instrumental in the missile-defense arrangement that we built with the romanians in the earlier administration. very much a person who knows how to combine the tools of warfare with the tools of arms control, and has been particularly riveted on strategic issues with cyber nuclea

deals or agreements rather we can expect that don't buy that for a basis between russia india russia and china china and iran. so i think that's more important to keep track and also another comment on this argument that this interest of russia china and india mutually exclusive i wouldn't say so i would rather to look at this from a different angle saying that they can more to be complimentary to each other of course no one can argue chinese dominance economic dominance. but together with without india and russia on board chinese initiative one both on the road is hard to come to fruition this is why china needs to have and developed contacts with all this important act as if it wants its initiative economic initiative integration initiative to to eventually succeed richard let's i just want to pick up on something the u.s. saying earlier about the this grouping originally when it was when it was 1st perceived being viewed in the u.s. as a potential rival to other political military alliances perhaps a threat to the u.s. and its interests and what would you make of what david was ju

russia is again showing its unkind unfriendly imperial faces russia is always looking out to take us territory yes those menacing russians on whole one's border just waiting for the right moment to invade but it seems that donald trump doesn't quite share that view do not see the rush to read the whole 1000000 and 2 you wrote . i hope. we're with everybody and i hope that i think that russia will treat poland with respect now while the russian threat may be imaginary the money that poland is showing the united states is very real big buyers of our equipment for planes and our communications in every form in every respect at this point we've got praising warsaw for meeting its nato spending requirements 2 percent of their g.d.p. trump is encouraging poland to buy more than 30 f. 35 fighter jets even had one of them fly over the white house on the sunny afternoon dude gave an encouraging wave and there's more money from poland coming america's way trump ale the deal in which the country would purchase 2000000000 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas from the united states furthermore a

relations between russia and the west well listen. we are not creating a military alliances with china we are still allies but we are not working against anyone we are working for the benefit of our countries and our partners and we are not substituting our supplanting anything our relations with the european union have always been multifaceted. we have been treated to the tune of 400000000000 annually. which was have to but not because of us it was not our initiative. and now it is getting closer to 300000000000 a year common sense is beginning to prevail the trade is beginning to grow again one doesn't impede the other but we are ready to work with everyone including the united states and the volume of trade their. course is a minimum of barmah trade that was a $20000000000.00 trump it's now $5000000000.00 more even though trump has implemented many restrictions as regards russia with the greatest number of restrictions against russia but the trail there is growing a bit we are not setting anyone against anyone else we are ready to

and russia to russia in the ice days in between russia and some other partners of ours but that's simply on the surface that current trade of $25000000000.00 is the way below what we would like to have on the way below what we actually can have but i don't know what their motives are going to do i have no clue but i certainly we're not going to ask for anything we're not going to . be. asked. that our hands are straight if they are ready to engage in cooperation we'll of course respond positively to that we are ready to do all we can to prove the situation i've been meeting with u.s. businessman. basis we met at the st petersburg forum because 550 businessmen for united states came there they all want to trade in the car parade to create jobs and creating jobs as one of the priorities for all no troubles oh no it was a good deal i said already during this interview which took place recently that. it was the global users should use me when the globalization protests the. global economy in trade to grow and flourish the united states which was its middle class felt that they were alien to

in russia we have like 400 bus partners. deploying the same vision and then adapting to local needs and look in specific cities and say that your enemy is an empty car and see that the economics of an empty bus see it including environmental economics is very different from an empty car see it as you try to integrate more and more modes of transportation into into a platform i'm going to privilege environmentally friendly ones. i think all of it is pretty much the same for us right. here to deploy in europe right now is your aim to see to so we could be kidding or 0 but i think it applies. a bus as much as a car to go back to your 1st comment i mean when i often said i give you any museum we should not forget if you get interested to transport we're reaching a wash in france in germany pretty much all over the world. by cars the cars to boost used transport if you could. car pulling a what we do is actually very very tiny today so the biggest expansion for us not in the next year but in the next 510 years how do we built a b

the $455 million hit —— russia's vladimir putin. the $455 million hit -- $455 billion hit, russia's vladimir putin. the $455 million hit —— $455 billion hit, how much the trade war will cost the global economy in lost output. good morning, asia. hello, world. it is a thursday. glad you could join us for this exciting addition of asia business report, i'm rico hizon. we start off with closer relations between beijing and moscow, because xijinping has started a between beijing and moscow, because xi jinping has started a three—day state visit to russia by describing vladimir putin as his best friend. it is their second meeting since april, and this underscores their strengthening relationship. on the sidelines of the meeting, huawei considered a security threat in the us signed a deal with telecommunications company mts to develop a 5g network in the country. russia has expressed support for china's elton road initiative, $1 trillion infrastructure project connecting 65 countries. trade between the two sides rose to a record hig

what's russia's reaction. showing picking up this sort of our weakness sort of strong we want to give. the ship a chance. to put it. to find a solution to. the situation. you should take to give we still i see it up. do you believe that russia should take responsibility for the downing of m h 17. and one more question mr president this year will mark the 30th anniversary of the berlin wall falling. and there are enough occasional germany so. after that a superpower ceased to exist the u.s.s.r. was dissolved do you believe 30 years later russia is a superpower again now bowing on may 7th. flies to russia's never dodge responsibility if it is responsible for something what we saw or presented as evidence of russia's guilt is unacceptable we believe that there's no proof. whatever they present it doesn't say anything we have our own syria we have presented it but no one wants to listen to us unless there is dialogue we will not find the right response to the questions that still remain unanswered related to the t

russia and china. together all my goodness you know threatening western institutions and their way of life i mean just a very rhetorical pitch tells you a whole lot about the policy perceptions will we have the united states changing its foreign policy and defense postures assuming that the the adversaries that they will fight is not the war on terrorism because it was never a war on terrorism but now of great appear power confrontations which of course keeps our defense industries well well paid ok and if you invested in those companies you're going to make a lot of money go ahead marcus. well i think that american politicians know if little one is really our wretched creatures because undoubtedly there are some who do believe that sasha and china are going to seem up its hate on america and what is their fear because of that that the russians and the chinese will impair america's ability to wage war around the world what's wrong with that. what you're on with that had china the north at back i seen i

so kelly craft has promised a firm stance against russia and china if she becomes u.s. representative to the un but is not the main idea behind the u.n. supposed to be reaching consensus and not confrontation. of course that's the whole point of the united nations is to try to foster peace and unfortunately we've seen that the united states the current administration in the past administration whether with samantha powers or nikki haley and now this new ambassador if chosen is not going to be any different already she's being confrontational saying that she's going to keep an eye on russia what exactly is russia doing wrong is that because they're fighting terrorism in the middle east and that's something that the united states this seems to be against all of a sudden. i really don't know and it's really sad to see where this current administration has been going and unfortunately where it seems that there is no end to this so it's no secret trump and his advisors john bolton specifically prefer unilateral u.s. action and in fact john bolton is famously against the u.n.

is to blame russia should cooperate more that russia should take responsibility for this well russia has maintained and which lattimer putin has reiterated today that it has been ostracised that it has been kept away from the investigation and a lot of the evidence that it provided that contradict the official version of the investigation that the version of the investigation have been overlooked or just brushed aside. what about the actual q. and a though igor today you know we were going in and of it the subtext range from all over what were the key themes of it well absolutely i mean it's been more than can you imagine it's been going on for more than 4 hours and i mean they've turned it into a real show i have to say really people from all sides of the societal spectrum of the of the of the of russia have had a chance to ask their questions we've heard questions from ordinary people from journalists from celebrities from bloggers from influences i mean really you name it and i mean for hours it is a lot of time and while the focus was mostly on the internal affairs of russia whic

discussing western sanctions against russia. are not there is fortune is asked and made billions and billions of dollars and. globally minded person who could theoretically be investing his money in lots of worldwide projects if it weren't for the western sanctions because businessman and sportsman who decide. circle today my guest is that. western sanctions against russia are affecting companies. but they also targeted russia's most influential businessman personally. country will trade between russia and the rest of the world survived the sanctions and russian business into its new reality and i didn't and i think it's great to have you on our program that this really really happy because we have lots to talk about so there is no widespread idea in the west that slapping sanctions against certain people their assets their kompany those people to create an opposition to the russian president and that will ensure a result in a policy change you're one of the 1st people or by the sanctions and they mean they haven't been since th

how does russia how does russia do this how does russia maintain relationships with all these different countries and different sides of the argument. and not annoy each other basically. well that's the biggest question how russia manages to be such a successful broke her or such a successful. diplomat if you will in terms of maintaining good working constructive relations with with all the regional players who usually have opposite views on different regional issues like iran and israel saudi arabian turkey and saudi arabia so that's one of the assets which moscow currently wants to want to ties on where russia wants to be perceived and viewed as an indispensable broker as in spent part of any crisis in the region which cannot be sold without its presence without its saying without its interests is there not or would there not be some big issues with trust i mean if we think about this happening in israel at the moment netanyahu is there and he obviously israel he would be concerned about russia's support for iran and in syria but then wants to cooperate on other things i just i find i

russia. is doing in the. a lot of times made for really a lot of do they die over a live ball in a pocket made like i had seen a person with 815000 ballot contract when a thing is down to for the humans in the pretty dialogue means 28 hour arguments and. you know what i'm and i appreciate you taking the time to even say so because you know the 1st thing is some i see you know care for some by the police as saying i want to see. somebody out there ok i feel like that's. a little worse situation than you. would like and i would see it's like riots i just want to see a lot more people like. young. i was actually worked in which people to have any more disability and i got fired from that job and i was sitting for about a couple months wondering and being a mailman was always something that i always thought would be a great job for me something that i would sit in. but if i can say if i if i was able to do it over and if i was a little bit smarter i would have been a psychology major in a sociology minor i think

to strong manufacturing and china needs energy russia needs of girls russia needs additional external demand. it's a very good story you know i mean he was you do get a truck between china and america surely it ruffled feathers in china this because everyone wants to reliable trading partners. yes indeed so the issue is. mutual trust and that's a fundamental issue right now hurting the relationship. but i think china needs to stand around continue to open the boston mass to market so there will be a lot of opportunities for russian businessmen how much is america broken that trust. big time or is it something that can be patched up. well i think trade you self is a fairly easy because. you know cultures have very different. but i think if we. trade for example the technology is getting more contagious. talking about the way people get all in business deals except for relations between russian and chinese leaders appear to be very friendly very called deal does that personal link help when it comes to making business deals of course every country around the world got different cultures

with a chance to discuss the league with russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman maria. this is interfering into mastic policy that is what mr just told the media the person. with whom he has that conversation so this is you are 100 percent interfering. to the. domestic policy of a country independent country independent state this is understanding some countries probably washington and probably that it is not that easy nowadays. to draw official government from independent country and state that it's it's not fair and it's actually not the way how things should be done in the 21st century and so i think the. put themselves on pause and i think we i mean all the international community should use this time. that this is not the option that this is absolutely not the option it's up to. it's up to the people who are living in this country to choose the government to choose a president to sheep their own political life and to leave their own political life but it's not up to washington to decide. who murdered 85 patients has been given a 2nd life sentence or 42 year old whe

s conclusion that russia was behind the alleged attack at the democratic party service in 26 c. the. didn't the never received a final report from private cyber security company crown strike which was hired by the party to investigate the hack reports was the core evidence for the russian hacking investigation with more on the story here's mark go see if. faith is a remarkable thing it can move mountains if you believe something hard enough heart and soul it doesn't actually matter if it's real it ought faith in god in family or in russian hackers russia also who now after having hacked into the d.n.c. russia hacked into the pillar of our democracy is hacking and hammering gas currently and we did not mention exactly that did occur nobody is debating that that did or did not happen it did happen faith no need for evidence proof friends ex or facts but as with every religion there are the tracks is doubtless one of them is roger stone a former advisor to the troubled campaign now indicted for alleged witness tampering and making false statements all related to wiki leaks as part

has never seen it doesn't know what is on gender any details so how russia prefers and how russia usually works on that is that that's if you have a proposal let's discuss that let's gather all interested actor its global regional the 2 parties of the conflict and then see what can be can be done what is doable what is not alexei klebnikov joining us from moscow great to talk to you thank you . so as we talk there about the so-called deal of the century people have been gathering across the palestinian territories to speak out against the deal a series of protests in gaza and the occupied west bank will coincide with this week's summit in basra and that is where the senior white house adviser jared cushion was expected to reveal details of his plans for palestine israel's prime minister says he'll give it fair consideration the palestinian leaders are already boycotting amazing. i don't think it will be any results from the manana workshop because it was built on wrong foundations what is built on falsehood is false the manana workshop came to solve the problem but what problem the econom

is present here in russia well that's. worth a separate discussion of the. many questions about the belarus so the question is when is russia and the belarus are going to united to a single state and there's even the ideal folding a referendum on that. it's not an issue of this we don't have an agenda of building one state we do have a treaty that was signed many years ago of the union state it's not a single state it's not the same there are many elements. in life. should the. union parliament or a single currency. that would bring us together really. close well russia stalled some of the components restored some of the processes to right now we agree with mr. x. and we need to revise that. we'll figure out what needs to be done what needs to be. exported ugle we have set up an expert group. at the level of the heads of governments and deputy heads of government. doing that. here. terms of free movement of goods and services. in terms of social guarantees and a lot mellower has been done but it's not enough we can and will do much more. from going back to o

russia, we have seen the warnings coming. russia now has the ability to turn off the lights in the united states if they want to. that statement from the dni in january, if you see it in context, that's the culmination of a few years of open source reporting and government documents to reporters and urgent and specific warnings from homeland security and intelligence about russia developing the capacity to target us in that way. when you stack up all those reports over the past few years, given the crescendo of that public reporting and the piling up of that evidence and incre e increasing urgency of the story as just pulled by the u.s. government starting christmas 2015, 2016, 2017, 18, and into this year, if you look at the urgency and specificity of the warnings we had over the past few years, now, today, at the end of that long string of news stories and warnings, it shouldn't have come as a surprise to get this report. the u.s. is doing the same thing back. that the u.s. developed the same capacity. u.s. escalates online