no, according to this conspiracy theory, russia didn't do that, russia didn't intervene. what actually happened is that it was the obama administration that was setting this all up as a frame job. they were colluding with foreign countries to set up russia to make it look like russia was interfering and to set up the trump campaign to make it look like they were getting help from russia. but it was all a frame job. it was all a false flag operation set up by the obama administration to somehow get trump elected and then undermine him once he was in office? it's never been totally clear how it all worked. but that's the conspiracy theory, that the attorney general of the united states appears to have been going around the world trying to prove. just yesterday we had this remarkable reporting about the prime minister of italy who was dragged before that country's parliament. the intelligence committees of his parliament to answer questions about what he and the italian government and italian intelligence service had been talking about with attorney general bill barr who has

today's russia wants to forget about 1989. but three decades on, russia is reasserting itself. there are fears of a new stand—off with the west. the baltic has become one of the front lines of what feels like a new cold war. as russia pushes for greater influence, i ask its leader how he sees his country. i am on a journey that will take me back to 1989 and across europe, to find out what it was like for moscow to lose an empire and whether russia is building a new one. moscow — it is a city that oozes empire. from the skyscrapers ofjoseph stalin, to the residence of the czars. the message is unmistakable — this is a country with ambition. throughout its history, russia has had an unswerving belief in its own greatness. you can feel that inside the kremlin. this is stunning. look at this. this says power, omnipotence, this says empire. russia was built as an empire, russia has existed as an empire because the essence is we are great, we have to have areas of influence and we have to have buffer states between ourselves and the outside world. so this is an empire. but in 1

opinions on that there might be a temptation on the other hand that's my question to russia russia. justified the intervention by the need to protect russia. justified the intervention by the need to protect country men so if one could only sell 65. country men so if one could only sell $65.00. maritime interest and. never to i mean this was a strategic time interest and they of crimean based it was never to you i mean this was a strategic reasons which is much more important than that but this notion to protect it degrees is much more important than that but this notion to protect country men has particularly. in their boat country men has particularly. in the baltic states because they have a lot of country men russian speaking minorities it takes that it's because they have a lot of country men speaking minorities if you could to step back from that and make clear we don't interfere mutually dress appropriately we don't feel quick to step back from that and make clear we don't interfere mutually reciprocally we don't. neighboring countries it would be a major step forward looking

ruling party side they want russia to come and invest in zimbabwe in kids take the credit that russia has helped them to revive the economy we see is not performing well at the moment. and zooming out a bit from the whole continent is russia's strategy russia strategy oversleep realizing a kind of compete with the likes of china is to focus on sectors where it can do really well and those sectors would be defense energy and mining and that's why i like invested in zimbabwe the mining sector over there these are areas where it has realized that it can actually. come up with long term commitments from african governments mining because it has a huge mining industry itself and its nuclear technologies can also be exported to africa hopes in the future and of course defense for which it is the largest supplier of arms to african countries. in berlin and privilege was an eery in zimbabwe thank you very much. south africa's parliament has approved of $4000000000.00 bailout for embattled power company eskom the measure comes just a week after the country was hit by another set of blackouts e

russia. john sullivan, who currently serves as deputy secretary of state, was asked questions about president trump's conversations with the president of ukraine in july. this confirmation hearing is just under two and a half hours. >> committee will come to order. today, we will hold the nomination hearing on a very important position. the honorable john j sullivan to be the ambassador to the russian federation. first, we have two very distinguished colleagues of ours who wish to introduce our nominees. torefore, i am going postpone my opening statement and i ask the ranking member to do likewise. beh that, we are glad to joined by senators sullivan of alaska and cardin of maryland. sullivan: thank you very much, mr. chairman, ranking member menendez. it is an honor to be in front of the committee again in front -- on behalf of my friend john sullivan to support his nomination to be the united states ambassador to the russian federation. despite what his last name would suggest, we are not r

but russia does not want to stand aside while other powers like the u. china and india strategically increase their influence and investment on the continent putin has big plans for africa especially with its rich mineral resources that's a quick look at selected activities of russian companies on the continent as energy multinational luko which is involved in a natural gas development project in the republic of congo in sudan and the central african republic a close ally of president putin has secured licenses for mining gold in guinea russian element in produce roussel is digging up more site and in zimbabwe russia wants to dig for platinum until now russia's trade with africa was muted last year exports to imports from the entire continent well value that only $20000000000.00 in comparison china's trade volume was 10 times bigger as the more than $200000000000.00. africa's largest trading partner of course that during that time was the european union with nearly $340000000000.00 of total trade russian officials have said that in the medium term they w

he talks about the russia-ukraine conflict and the impeachment inquiry of president trump, russia sanctions and u.s. military aid to ukraine. from the johns hopkins school of international study, this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> i'd like to welcome everybody to the russia-you're asia seminar. we do it every two weeks, as you know, and given the speaker that we have and the topic is going to deal with. we have the pleasure of welcoming c-span here which is broadcasting this event as far as i can tell live on c-span2. i'm charles gotti. i organize these seminars and i say very little because i want the speaker to have as much time as possible. just to give you a little background. he hails from massachusetts and the soviet studies at harvard, before that, he got his va also in soviet studies and political science from tufts university. at harvard he studied with the legendary adam olamb and in tufts with solitary and old friend of mine, indeed. >> he left washington after, ana professor at -- in florida, at -- at florida international university, and that's a move that is shrouded in myster

and open to both russia and china. ok so isaac some of africa's most influential leaders have gathered for this summit tell us more about why this is important to them you know what are they gaining from this deeper partnership with moscow. would the needs from russia vary from country to another country for instance some country would lead to boost military cooperation with russia they hope to trust shall we say and security experts like has been the case in the central african republic so they can be able to fight off the different mission groups that they have to do with on a daily basis only yesterday russia sent to block that bomb but there was biggest major aircraft to south africa as part of a defense cooperation agreement i did same time nigeria sent an agreement with russia to purchase 2 of combat helicopters which he tends to use in its fight against boko haram militants now i wait for a major corporation just like my colleague yuri moskos mission to russia has made a name for itself in the court and for send

to boost military cooperation with russia they hope that russia would say and secure to experts like has been the case in the central african republic so they can be able to fight off the different music groups that they have to do with on a daily basis only it's the day russia sent to block the boom bust there was biggest profit to south africa as part of a defense cooperation agreement at the same time nigeria send an agreement with russia to purchase 2 of combat helicopters which he tends to use in its fight against boko haram militants now i wait for a major corporation just like my colleague yuri name most guys mentioned russia has made a name for itself in the coordinates for sending nuclear technology to developing nations example round egypt and nigeria that among those in the market for russia bitch nuclear power plants and for starters also south africa's been russia's business but now for some time now under the brics regiment so there's a lot at stake for lead as you know in sochi ok so you're coming back here we're talking about a nuclear technology here economic investm

mightily when it comes to the relations between russia and nato russia at the e.u. they had gary leader once again made it clear that he was beautiful to be called at this beheading gary leader once again made it clear that he was beautiful to be called this bridge between the west and east and he's happy to play this role here's what bridge between the west and east he's happy to play this role here's what exactly he said all that. of course hungry is a member of nato what exactly he said all that. of course hungry is a member of nato and the e.u. and it will remain there but it doesn't exclude cooperation with russia and the e.u. and it will remain there but it doesn't exclude cooperation with russia including a political levels hungary is interested in improving relations between nato meeting of political levels hungary is interested in improving relay. we nato and russia have this political and historic experience when relations between west and russia have this political and historic experience and the relations between western and eastern europe a strain hungr

they're pretty much like bunching each other out over russia hitting russia they're. pretty much like watching each other over russia that's what it looks like from here yeah and i think that there's a point there you know the social justice what it looks like from here yeah and i think that there's a point there you know the social justice warriors in the us the hollywood liberal types warriors in the us the hollywood liberal types whenever there is a problem they axiomatically just whenever there is a problem they axiomatically just point out russia as the source of the problem and it just strikes anyone who point that russia as the source of the problem and it just strikes anyone who's got any sense of history or any conscious at all that just naked it's got any sense of history or any conscious at all that just naked bigotry just make it bigotry and but they but and these are coming from the social justice we get 3 just make it bigotry and but they but and these are coming from the social justice warriors who you know are going to eat falafel in our tofu sandwiche

folks they will russia and china at the top and typically say russia short-term they have a capability to a stronger economy and population etc.. it does china want to surpass the u.s. come absolutely. it's about regaining their rightful place at the top of the world. what's interesting is russia had a similar mindset going back not as far but the collapse of the soviet union they feel they were humiliated and folks know better in the room tammy what's interesting chinese leaders to study the fault and collapse, china studies at and they say we don't want to be that. >> by impression is they say knock it off and it kind of works for a period. >> the former deputy director of the nsa, basically the cyber operations response. he said after obama delivered a tough warning that there was a discernible downturn in activity in terms of volume but not a substantive change in the aggression. it's still as active as what they were taking away in the public and private sectors. >> they basically la lay out wht they are going to do so i mean, what is it that they are going to do in general they w

that russia did it. but the position of the trump administration, of course, is that russia didn't do it, and now the attorney general's inquiry, which is apparently designed to prove that, now that is a criminal investigation with, quote, the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to impanel a grand jury, and to file criminal charges. that means that the law enforcement and intelligence officials who were involved in investigating russia's attack on our election are now potentially the subjects of criminal charges. this, of course, is happening against the backdrop of impeachment proceedings in the house. i am sure that is totally unrelated. >>> joining us is congressman shan maloney, the lead committee on the impeachment matter. thank you for being here. >> great to be with you. >> i had a whole bunch of different things to talk to you about, but then this news broke. i have to get your reaction to it. >> it's alarming because we know trump is itching to politicize the justice departmen

at this point it is impossible for russia. i'm not sure that it ever was very realistic but at this point it is off the table as a possibility with a lot to undermine the nato alliance and european union more broadly that is a fundamentally stable situation and unresolved. that's factor number one, number two the united states and russia over the past 25 years have gradually each come to the belief that the other side not just as a competitor but actually wants to destroy it if led them to believe that the united states was trying to encircle russia with hostile regime's expanding the nato alliance up to the borders and ultimately regime change inside of moscow to break the country apart. now, we think that's crazy. we look at this to say they are go the russians again. they are paranoid. in fact, when we talk about russia and its perceptions, you hear that word paranoia a lot. it's almost like russia and paranoia go together. what happened with the united states particularly over the past two years? .. things. in the pentagon

little bit of that you work for russia today don't you while it is because of people like you that russia were accused of meddling in the election because you just said now that trump could be reelected they will say gotcha this is russia interfering with the election campaign jokes aside we all know what president trump says about russian american relations and how he talks about them we know that during his previous campaign he called for relations to get back to normal but unfortunately nothing has been done but we do not hold it against anyone because we can all see what is going on in the american domestic political scene these days but the domestic political agenda prevents the incumbent president from embarking on a drastic improvement in relations between our countries in any case we will work with any administration to the extent it's willing to work with us however we cannot help but feel concerned over overall global security and strategic balance this is obvious in 2002 and president trump has nothing to do with it the united states withdrew from the a.b.m. treaty which i woul

former director of russia analysis at the cia and white house advisor on russia for vice president shiny, george beebe is director of intelligence national security at the center for national interest, draws on 25 years of experience to when the us and russia are on a collision course. describing a situation more dangerous than the cold war he shows how factors including new strategic weapons, shifts in world power, unsettled regional conflict and the advantages of cyberattacks on cyberdefense are heightening competition between the countries to the point were small and predictable event could set off a deadly conflict. here to talk about it please help me welcome george beebe. [applause] >> thank you for that introduction and thank you for coming tonight. i have given a lot of talks over the last few years since leaving government but i think this is the first time i have given a talk with a book, this is the first book that i published in the first time i have ever given a talk where my wife has been in the audience. that is a special occasion and great to see so many colleagues and fr

of free press abroad reports on corruption in russia. are helping to establish authoritarian regimes abroad crackdown on the free press would have similar effects for a genuine distaste for democracy or fear that nato is creeping on the borders how do you split that difference? >> i think my reaction to that is yes. this is one of the things that makes for difficult problem. very seldom dealing with the paradigm issues you have diagnostic evidence. that's only consistent with one explanation most of the time the fax you have in front of you can be connected in different ways simultaneously. this model can be true and this model can be true so this rules this out. you are right. part of the problem is you can explain them in different ways but what i'm advocating is this is the only way you explain it the others are not plausible and the stakes are so high we better think hard for the el terrier explanation it matters a lot. now one of the things that i would say however about the time is that do they and those that do happen. >> so i als

jacqueline hi again so this week africa is russia's guest to get russia to be africa's guest more often or even permanent in some cases the rush hour for an economic forum and summit that's what they're officially cord called are well underway and we know that before the summit all the african leaders got an invitation almost all of them made a 2 sought she so now nearly 50 heads of state from africa are here getting together and also most of them will get an opportunity to talk face to face with vladimir putin we know that such economic and global powerhouse is such as the u.s. europe and china of course previously through similar events now it is russia's start although some people would say that in many cases the countries that i mentioned western countries plus the u.s. china sometimes they're way too eager to get that slice of the african pawing after all 30 percent of the global natural resources that's something that does sound quite tempting although top russian officials have been saying that russia's approach is completely different russia isn't bishan when it comes to africa

well that big difficult for russia because russia is also dependent on europe and also on the custom as russia has to to sell its gas 60 to 70 percent of the budget of the federal state budget russia dependent on the revenues from gas so they have to sell and europe has to buy it's a double dependency it's another story for ukraine ukraine is not buying gas anymore from russia it's now getting its gas actually from western europe but ukraine is dependent on the fees it's just for gas transport via the pipelines running through ukraine and russia wants to get rid of these fees and the dependency on ukraine and therefore is building these new pipelines around ukraine the turks remain in the south and north stream in the north battling that thank you very much. hong kong's leader carrie lam says the city is a risk of falling into recession as it enters its 5th month of pro-democracy protests over its numbers have dropped and retail businesses as they have been forced to shut of their doors doing protests and rallies. after 5 months of pro-democracy protests some people in hong kong are

zelensky, in fact, signed up to a new deal with russia, very much on russia's exact terms after trump publicly pressured him to do it. that has led, among other things, to these large protests in the main square in in kiev with kraunz asking why their new president is capitchlating to russia after five years of war. maybe it has something to do with the fact that their strongest military ally, the united states, told them to do it, after withholding money for military aid until president trump could extract some favors from that government having to do with his next re-election effort. i mean, what might putin want from the u.s. government that he's not getting? in recent week, president trump also advocated that putin had to be allowed back into the g-7, but the g-7 should be called the g8 again. putin was kicked off after staiged ukraine and taking crimea. putin is advocating for them to be let back in. "the washington post" reports in a phone call to the u.k. president trump argued and argued and argued and wouldn't let it go that russia shouldn't be blamed for the attempted assass

as russia has to to sell its gas 60 to 70 percent of the budget of the federal state budget in russia dependent on the revenues from gas so they have to sell and europe has to buy it's a double dependency it's another story for ukraine ukraine is not buying gas anymore from russia it's now getting its gas actually from vest in europe but ukraine is dependent on the fees it's charges for gas transported via the pipelines running through ukraine and russia wants to get rid of these fees and the dependency on ukraine and therefore is building these new pipelines around ukraine terex stream in the south and north stream in the north. thank you very much. google's parent company alphabet said its quarterly profits fell 23 percent to $7000000000.00 mistake market expectations alphabets as profits were hampered by rising research and development costs the company is trying to maintain growth while investing in a variety of new gadgets and services revenue growth from advertising is also down . its leaders says the city is ad risk of falling into recession as it enters its 5th month of pro-de

this is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes they returns to africa russia has its a focus on the continent and the 1st is about russia africa's summit is underway find out why so many african leaders hakim often a ship was lost. and needs to cindy and wall to cameroonian couple making it's been good they say they're living the russian dream. to have coffee ballots in the country's titus election at 50 is people day it will tell us what their expectations are. and it's back to the ocean penguins but they're facing extinction. hello i'm christine window welcome to news africa it's good to have you along doesn't that look like a bromance well here's a question for you how do you get 43 african leaders to leave the continent for 2 days well that's one russia's right in recruited can't answer because that's exactly what he's done the 1st of a russia africa summit is underway in the russian resort town of sochi and the attendance is remarkable in this picture and you see the president's off malawi egypt. south africa now the russians also have to be looking for money and friends al

russia to do that for them and france to some extent but russia is by far the foggiest along in in that in that program by far the foggiest along in in that in that program they also have failed basically lost the competency to build they also have failed basically lost the competency to build nuclear reactors on time and within budget all of their build nuclear reactors on time and within budget all of their projects latest projects have been complete disasters projects latest projects have been complete disasters the united states has 100 nuclear reactors producing quite a lot of the other the united states has 100 nuclear reactors we're guessing quite a. a lot of the electricity and these are all aging out they're going to be shut down but they don't know how to replace tricity and these are all aging out they're going to be shut down but they don't know how to replace the united states doesn't know how to build icebreakers anymore it's been decades since they built one united states doesn't know how to build icebreakers anymore it's been decades since they built one well the people

hollywood movies that demonized russia. thousands of hours movies that demonized russia. thousands of hours of cable television there russia becomes blamed for all sorts of things of cable television there russia becomes blamed for all sorts of things so. russia is the prime candidate for demonization it's so. russia is the prime candidate for demonization it's very difficult to do the same thing to china because that would be considered racist where is very difficult to do the same thing to china because that would be considered racist whereas russians pass for white people so russia's state the obvious target is russians pass for white people so russia's state the obvious target but it's sort of shadow boxing because they are really hitting russia they're pretty much like but it's sort of shadow boxing because they are really hitting russia they're. pretty much like watching each other over russia that's what it looks like from here you know and i think watching each other over russia that's what it looks like from here you know and i think that there's a point there yo

between be russia victor or bad once again made it clear what russia between be russia victor or bad once again made it clear that he wants his country to become this tiny bridge that that he wants his country to become this tiny bridge that could potentially finally lead to some kind of improvement when it comes could potentially finally lead to some kind of improvement when it comes to the difficulties between these parties. to the difficulties between these parties. of course hungry is a member of nato and the e.u. and it will remain there but of course hungry is a member of nato and the e.u. and it will remain there but it doesn't exclude cooperation with russia including a political levels hungary is in doesn't exclude cooperation with russia including a political levels hungary is interested in improving relations between nato and russia where we have this political and historic expressed it improving relations between nato and russia where we have this political and historic experience and the relations between western and eastern europe a strain hungry loses experience and th

of russia germany is totally controlled by russia because they were getting . from 60 to 70 percent of their energy from russia and a new pipeline from 60 to 70 percent of their energy from russia and a new pipeline now despite the push behind nonstory which will transit russian gas directly to germany now despite the push behind nonstory in which will transit russian gas directly to germany passing through the baltic sea germany's economy minister said it's still vital that the original gas transit repassing through the baltic sea germany's economy minister said it's they'll fight all that the original gas transit route through ukraine through the crack main aim is to main to test. some analysis on it now from journalist thomas fassbender joins me very good evening thomas are you surprised fassbender joins me very good evening thomas are you surprised because it seems that there was some pressure coming from the u.s. saying you know you don't want to be buying russian gas probably seems like there was some pressure coming from the u.s. saying you know you don'

bigger picture people ask me because intel will put russia and china at the top and typically sayll russia short-term or dangerous short-term long-term china is a threat and to have that capability does china want to surpass? olabsolutely read the speeches and the editorials this is about regaining the rightful place. >> what's interesting is and then the villain not the hero. and so you are with the obama administration event is a knock it off. is that true. >> talking to the former deputy director highly evolved. and then said after he delivered that morning there was a discernible downturn in activity in terms of volume but not substantive change chinese aggression in terms of what they are taking away. >> with the chinese liberation army where they basically lay outt what they are going to do. so what is it? you touch on a lot of it but in general so what is their approach the shadow war is the asymmetric warfare and then to roll the tanks acrossr the border with this old ukrainian thing right they will not build 12 aircraft carriers so they do it in the asymmetric fashion and the stra

russia at the e.u. we had gary leader once again made it clear that he wanted to russia at the e.u. he had gary leader once again made it clear that he was viewed a pest to be called that this bridge between the west and east and its view to pass to become this bridge between the west and east and he's happy to play this role here's what exactly he said all that all the schmo todd he's happy to play this role here's what exactly he said all that all the schmo todd of course hungry is a member of nato and the e.u. and it will remain that but it of course hungry is a member of nato and the e.u. and it will remain that but it doesn't exclude cooperation with russia including a political levels hungary is interest in exclude cooperation with russia including a political levels hungary is interested in improving relations between nato and russia we have this political and historic expressed it improving relations between nato and russia we have this political and historic experience in relations between west

russia still occupies and threatens ukrainian territory. russia has not withdrawn mr. putin doesn't deserve any breaks from the sanctions and actions that were taken by the international community. let's fast-forward to the current situation with the impeachment inquiry and the scandal that we are witnessing here. even before the phone call that president trump may 2 president zelensky on july 25 of this year, key, according to media reports, had a very negative view of ukraine. the "washington post" reported, for example, that it a former senior administration official who were people he discussed the issue with president trump said that the president thought court, what we were doing in ukraine was pointless and just aggravating the russians. the official went on to say the president position basically is we should recognize the fact that the russians should be our friend, and who cares about the ukrainians? the "new york times" had a similar report, saying that president trump has had harsh words about ukraine. they are terrible people, he is quoted as having said.

of the deal announced by russia and turkey on tuesday the s.d.f. need to thank moscow for its work to end hostilities in northern syria so them concealed it has more now from istanbul. took agave to assure insisted the united states so that they could lift the sanctions imposed on track at the 1st song was halting the military operation that was launched in october 9th against the syrian kurdish fighters group wipe each of which turkey designates as a terrorist organization and make the recently deal recently signed deal the cease fire there as permanent so that turkey would not again attack the syrian kurdish fighter group y p g in northern syria again and the 2nd best surance was that turkey would secure the arsenal fighters who are in prison who were captured by the syrian kurdish fighter group during their can't counter eisel operations in northern syria and turkey would not let them escape or anything happen both the united states and turkey market this deal as a very historical success as u.s. president donald trump is prepping up for an elec

russia. let's agree is interested in improving relations between nato and russia about this very little and historical and his. spirit koreans were like no relation between western. europe a strong europe a strange hungry loses if the good hungary is it will still win. green loses it is a ration is a good hungry it will see it when. we see whether or not this is what whether this plan that will work work or not we will find out if the big big dogs or yours does but it's clear that victor or bad who's been put at least once it's clear that victor or bad who's been beating blabber put at least once a year what's to keep trying and it looks like a lot of reputed victims here what's to keep trying and it looks like a lot of reputed victor or bad want to keep up that pace well we have been georgism what were bad want to keep up that pace well we had been georgism wally he's a senior. fellow senior and it was a search will. be in the post. and he explained. why hungary has become russia's key ally

the mountains of least only grow. 6 hours of talks between the presidents of russia and turkey result in a new plan for northern syria one that forces the removal of kurdish y p g forces from a border buffer zone. also this hour a report by the international chemical weapons watchdog on last year's alleged chemical attack in syria is more and by irregularities that's the conclusion of an independent expert panel that's been scrutinizing the o.p.c. w.c. findings. plus fears rise that the mistakes of the $2800.00 into a crisis will be repeated as a congress accuse us ratings agencies of going easy on big firms that are heavily in debt. and the 1st ever russia africa summit is now underway in the resort city of sochi with a host of leaders and attendants. here watching our to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. more than 6 hours of talks between the turkish and russian leaders have resulted in a breakthrough on the situation in northern syria the cease fire there was extended by 6 days with kurdish forces expected to leave

left russia laying claim to members city a strategic city in the northern countryside of aleppo its strategic location on an international highway that connects east to west syria most of the players in the syrian conflict would want to control this city because it is a supply line a supply lines run through the city and for turkey it is important because if it is to create this safe zone in the area east of the euphrates it will need access to members in order for this safe zone not to be an isolated pocket to connect it to other areas in syria so the russian president a presence along the front lines between our separating these syrian and turkish armies actually means that the turkish led offensive to capture this city which was held by the kurdish led syrian democratic forces is no longer possible if turkey wants to avoid a direct confrontation with russia so this development really calls into question the relationship between these 2 countries turkey and russia they have been working together in syria yesterday the turkish president seemed confident that russia was on his side

well what you just heard means that russia 1 is now sorry africa is now russia's guest in order to make sure that russia becomes africa's guest more often maybe in some cases permanently as the russian africa economic forum and summit that's what it's officially called are well underway i have told you that the invitations were. sent out to all the african leaders and nearly all of them made it here and that is more than 40 leaders taking part here i can tell you that the economic and geopolitical giants such as the us the e.u. and china have to thrown such events in the past but someone saying that they do have a reputation of being very eager to get this slice of africa natural resources and other benefits that they can get out of it in fact more than 30 percent of reserves of the earth's natural resources that's really something that sounds quite tempting but now it is russia's turn although the officials that i have a hard from keep saying that russia is approach is completely different moscow is far behind western countries and china when it comes to their ambitions for africa and

russia doesn't have that kind of financial sense and i think about russia russia doesn't have that kind of financial center is gotten it's kind of like divorcing itself from the it is gotten it's kind of like divorcing itself from the financial ization of the global economy by buying hundreds and hundreds of tough financial ization of the global economy by buying hundreds and hundreds of tons of gold you know they're going is russia going to come out with a gold backed currency items of gold you know. they're going is russia going to come out with a gold backed currency i realize this is a bit of speculation but it seems like russia maybe russia and china are going to rely this is a bit of speculation but it seems like russia maybe russia and china are going to come out with a gold back or partially gold backed currency or china has been speculating now with a gold back or partially gold backed currency or china has been speculated well now they've got 20000 tons of gold which is more than anyone understand that they have rated well now they've got 20000 tons of gold which is more than

president want ukraine to make a deal with russia over russia having invaded them? well, any deal between ukraine and russia that settled that matter would be the basis for u.s. and international sanctions against russia being dropped. so this is something that the white house has been pushing for. obviously the way that president trump has been behaving toward ukraine means that any such settlement right now between ukraine and russia would be more on russia's terms than it otherwise would be, right? i mean, ukraine is in a newly weak position if they newly cannot count on u.s. military aid, if they newly cannot count on u.s. support and public shows of support, things like meetings with the white house, invitations to the white house. these are things the trump white house has actively withheld from ukraine repeatedly since trump took office. but ukraine is further weakened by these now public indications that their new ukrainian president is a sort of is up plikant to the president of the united states and trying to get that support. that makes him look weak too.

russia has set out to win hearts in africa. this woman says she loves russia for organizing the event. russian money was also spent on a beauty contest that crowned miss central africa the sponsor at events like these is a radio station promoting russian african time is radio lingo sung go. so what's it like it a broadcaster that does advertising for moscow we don't get mansour to that question at its headquarters in a suburb of bangor. but we do get to view an animated clip aimed at showing russia's friendly feeling this toward the country's children it was paid for by low buy invest. that's a company with ties to russian president vladimir putin a company that was named for a region known for its diamonds the government here has granted law by invest a lot of mining rights the country wants to look for the precious stones more efficiently whether with russia or other partners the. president has said that we are open to anyone who wants to cooperate in public private partnerships to exploit these valuable resources only the pe

russia's 2024 problem which is the problem of the issue of power transition. to his successor also very much depends on their cuteness of tensions with the united states how come how is it possible i mean moscow is so proud of its sovereignty and yet you're suggesting that the most consequential decision of a generation of will ultimately depend on its relationship with washington well i think the international context and the u.s. russian relations is one of the most important elements of this international context made a huge impact on the russian domestic evolution the historical mission i think of law the middle portion is not just to make russia a great power again but also to make it illegitimate a great power right to compel the other powers to recognize russia and the except russia as a legitimate independent great power of global significance we are logged there we are in conditions of precisely the new called war do knighted states still try to leverage the russia back into its strategic defeat into mind in mind this and do wants to transform russia

and the except russia as a legitimate independent group. of global significance we are logged there we are in conditions of precisely the new cold war do knighted states still try to everett russia back into its throat defeat into mind in mind this m d wants to transform russia both in terms of its foreign policy in the terms of its domestic politics these pressure off the us the russian comes from tension i think is is impacting the russian domestic development in the very strong way he him in the that it will be a more difficult you know for for russia to manage its transition in conditions of the new cold war with the united states if we have the acknowledgement by the united states by the west in general in the role as the legitimate great power what i think the 20th when to for transition would be much more smooth and easy and car mornings while we have to live in there thank you very much for being with us today my pleasure. i encourage our viewers to keep this conversation going in our social media pages and hope to syria same place

a push for closer business ties and more geopolitical sway russia is hosting its 1st african summit as it seeks to greater influence in a continent where the west and china has a firm foothold also coming up despite major backer stropping out facebook insists on launching its own digital currency next year the company c.e.o. will face questions on the matter today by u.s. lawmakers. i'm chris cuomo welcome to the program it's a premier aimed at making a big impact russian president vladimir putin is hosting dozens of african leaders in such a this week for the 1st ever russia africa summit chief of his aims is to jumpstart relations with the continent 3 decades after the fall of the soviet union then a major player in africa. now russia has big plans in africa particularly in mineral resources like in the republic of congo where oil multinational oil is involved in a natural gas development project and so that and the central african republic a close ally of president putin has secured mining licenses for gold in guinea russian aluminum producer ross through saul is the thing about sid

we supposedly do not recognize russia taking part of ukrainian and calling it russia. we certainly do not recognize russia considering those international waters to be their own. but then they pull this off with one of our allies including taking all the sailors hostage and nothing? the white house intervenes to stop a statement of condemnation? why did that happen? who -- which senior official at the white house did that? we didn't know about that before today. but it's amazing all the stuff that's turning up in this impeachment inquiry. christopher anderson served in that top role on the ukraine issue as the top adviser otothe ukraine envoy until july of last year. he testified today in addition to the russian navy and the statement condemning it. he testified today that at white house meetings he heard national security adviser john bolton express concerns about rudy giuliani intervening in this part of u.s. foreign policy. and giuliani's calls for ukraine to perform some sort of investigations that might benefit president trump. christopher anderson was succeeded i

is playing 2nd fiddle to russia it seems like turkey is playing 2nd fiddle to russia. first of course throughout the war. it wasn't simply people who were ever sure it would just do with. probably as much as any country sponsoring that the so-called opposition to topple the regime as much as any country sponsoring that the so-called opposition to topple the regime and now the fact that turkey and russia are working together is really another indicator you know the fact that turkey and russia are working together is really another indication that assad and sig so i think he probably has mixed feelings but still and that was sudden sig so i think he probably has mixed feelings but still. he must be reserved though he's not determined it was not it was cold war hero he must be reserved. he's not determined it was not it was cold war here is all of this all going to dr max abrams associate professor of political science is all of this all going to dr max abrams associate professor of political science at northeastern university thanks so much your time . at northeastern un