in russia. it remains striking to me how concerned and maybe even scared the russian government seems to be of one man, mr. navalnt. -- mr. navalny. across the board, at the president has said, we are reviewing all of these actions. whether it is the treatment of mr. navalny, and particularly the apparent use of the chemical weapon in an attempt to assassinate him. we are looking very urgently as well as solar winds and various implications. we are looking at the reports of bounties placed by russia on american forces in afghanistan, and of course, we are looking at these questions of election interference. all of that, as the white house has indicated, is under review. i don't want to get ahead of where we are on those reviews. as i say, we have a deep concern for mr. navalny's safety and security. the larger point is that his voice is the voice of many, many, many russians and it should be heard, not muzzled. not ruling out anything, but we want to get his full review done and then we will tak

corrupt officials in russia he costs more money to the country. and i would continue on what george just said if nobody had real support he would ask for a real legal demonstration he would be given permission. at some big square in a more school at some big stadium he was offered that you know he's just you know whatever that but you know he would have a 1000000 people that would make an impression that brought him if he doesn't have a 1000000 people so he's people when they were offered legal squarest in russia in moscow they refused they said pushkin square well if you're so pushkin square it's basically a tiny space on both sides of the main street of more sports where sky have where dissidents ages 7 just used to have small protest actions like 6 or 7 people right arrested by police so it's famous historically but it's not feat for a big demonstration so they didn't brutally want at the kalash with police you know they deliberately wanted some people to get the rest up and and yes to make these publicity in the west yes it will be bad for act

and russia. this means the united states must move away from speaking first-strike capabilities and plans to destroy russia's and china's nuclear deterrents. the desire to gain such advantage is understandable, but russia and now china will do what they must to prevent it from happening. arms racing and crisis instability result. the ensuing costs and risks are disproportionate to the stakes involved in the regional conflicts that are most likely to did i sert war and they use resources for other capabilities. there should be a upgrade placed on command and control and communications systems and ensuring some nuclear deterrent norse would be immune from cyber attack. to further reduce risk of inadvertent or mistaken or disproportionately eskola try use of nuclear weapons, the u.s. should do away with plans to launch u.s. nuclear weapons under attack as we explore in chapter 3. we also describe an alternative approach of dev siding under attack which, again, we can elaborate during the discussion.

needs essentially you know paraphrasing here in between the lines that you know russia has to learn oh oh bester new ways for it to be a genuine legitimate partner of the west in this case particularly the european union your take. they're all i going to liberalism consistent some very good ideas about the central role of the individual which shareholders obviously disservice a role in society the point i was making was that the liberal international system contra would be couples from power politics and sense that a liberal international system in europe effectively meant that we would keep some of this block all it takes and also making russia responsible for its own exclusion by not living up to the west ideals and also to some extent 3 reshaping the relations so again the e.u. nato they tend to conceptualize some softness you know socializing agents they are the teacher some liberalism in russia student so under this format you have you know what for for a sovereign equality and indeed we don't under this format we don't really discuss russian policies instead we discuss their b

russia slams the u.s. for undermining free trade and fact competition off the washington post about european companies pulling out of the nordstrom to pipeline project in the face of u.s. sanctions. u.s. democrats demand cable and satellite providers justified hosting right wing media outlets have moved republican say is an attack on the freedom of speech. its rays face being banned from public places and even jobs unless they've been fascinated again for coke at 19 by the so-called green pastures all raising concerns over human rights always a choice has a consequence and it shouldn't be that everybody in israel suffers because some people make a bad choice.

you for instance from politico russia mass arrests in russia of protesters demanding navarro nice release people people did go on the streets in russia they did protests those protesting also criticism also outside of the country was that. well i think that in the worse it was a fairly clear conclusion has been drawn russian state was responsible for his poisoning so that has caused a century of indignation. among western leaders. they haven't they must be done very much about it so far beyond beyond talk so thick you know russia russia the international image has suffered at least certainly in those parts of world which are already inclined to look negatively upon it i would doubt it's the same impact in parts of the world which did not have such a bad relations with russia so countries like china india brazil places like that probably are. the impact is not insane. and we spoke to some people who were protesting when a family was charged when he was arrested and our shop is one of them and he talks about the protests being more than about an avanti have a listen to him and he acts as i

russia. european diplomats to leave the country for taking part in protests in moscow the rallies were in support of the jailed opposition figure out. the announcement comes as russia's foreign minister the foreign policy chief met today in the russian capital tell us more. new fresh cracks in russia on the day when for the 1st time in 3 years the head of european diplomacy arrived in moscow for talks the decision to expel european diplomats from russia has nothing to do with the arrival of joseph is foreign policy chief but it does coincide with his visit so diplomats from poland sweden and germany have been ordered to leave russia for taking part in unsanctioned rallies in support of kremlin critic alexina volley during 2 weekends at the end of january the russian foreign ministry has called such behavior by the diplomats unlawful and unacceptable and the swedish embassy was the 1st to deny any violations of russian or international law by a member of their staff the swedish foreign ministr

it's not only russia that happens. and when this happened in a country where did i draw from all that is due to visionary who has to intervene and these cases can be brought to justice and if there isn't an excessive force british way of putting things in order after friday's events you might want to ask have we really seen much progress in rebuilding trust between the e.u. countries and russia it doesn't look like it will be a hot button issue of covert 1000 vaccines was also raised the meeting between the 2 top diplomats the e.u.'s foreign policy chief expressed his hope for the fast track or theorize ation of russia sputnik within the block and now i am hoping that you have been medical agency will be able to certify the efficiency of the vaccine you know that could be useful szell into the pm union state who will be good new because as you know we are facing a shortage of vaccine well around received its 1st part jobs but doing pretty well with the vaccines arriving in tehran earlier on friday the shipment comes as

russia. germany poland. still fighting for justice the british teenager killed in a road accident involving a. working for american intelligence services a revelation. came to. some. hopeful. head in the program. and his 1st foreign policy speech but he didn't. run the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team and myself you know me hello and welcome to the program . russia has ordered 3 european diplomats to leave the country for taking part in protests in moscow the rallies were in support of the jailed opposition figure alexina. russia's foreign minister the e.u.'s foreign policy chief met today in the russian capital. can tell us more. new fresh cracks in russia on the day when for the 1st time in 3 years the head of european diplomacy arrived in moscow for talks the decision to expel european diplomats from russia has nothing to do with the arrival of joseph is foreign policy chief but it does coincide with his visit so diplomats from poland sweden and germany have been ordered to

russia does not rely on anybody or russia is in arms expects its exporting arms and basically saying that russia should do the same thing but with its economy is that if anybody decides to impose more sanctions and cripple some crucial economic sphere of russia then you should just go old wave goodbye and say well if you're closing this door we won't we won't be standing there knocking you're ok or i think you go that was our r.t. he goes down if we get more analysis now with a covert operation independent political analyst and we appreciate you coming back on to this deal but what are your thoughts here how do you think brussels will react to this statement by lab. i think obviously paul's it was taught aussie crosses react immediately or have to reflect on the meetings because there's a lot of nuance was what was. the tension on both sides or rearranging their own relationship with our player. or less or just expect an immediate boost. just wondered from the statement whether why do you would be very concerned i'm not i'm not saying that they shouldn't be be but looking at this sor

but calls for tougher sanctions against russia are getting louder. after the reported poisoning of opposition politician alex enough ali many demanded a halt to the construction of the north stream to local authorities refused to believe that construction might be stopped. in 5 nobody can you really link the case of nevaeh in the to a project like north stream to. what would it be better to look at these 2 events separately especially when the facts at least according to my assessment are not yet clear enough to place the blame on russian government or. the mayor is voicing the opinion of the citizens of lukeman a seaside resort on the baltic sea. because of the coronavirus there aren't enough tourists but there are also very few locals on the beach their opinion is almost unanimous. people think everything the russians do is bad that's not right the volley is unimportant north stream is important to. us can we afford to waste millions billions compromises have to be made i think it must be completed i think it was dismissed because both only one per

there has been a huge advantage in russia about closing the channels -- outrage in russia about closing the channels. the thing is that security service has been following this case for at least half a year. the fact that she was financing this channels from the companies registered in those territories. we don't know what they will be responding to. there should be something showing in the way of how upset they are about that. it could potentially be something else. but we are expecting that this could've attachable go up. generally speaking we clearly see things are getting more tense. it is not going anywhere for some time. i am personally in touch with a few members of this counter group and they clearly say that russia is basically doing whatever they can in order to sabotage the process. there is not much happening there because generally there is a lack of intent of actually fixing or finding a solution. obviously they can reach some agreement if this agreement is purely on russian terms. but if that is the case, then i guess the situation got stopped. russians know very well tha

hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle russia e.u. relations got a reality check last week russia's foreign minister said a gay lover of read the riot act to the blog also washington never ceases to lecture the world about democracy and the rule of law how are both doing in the u.s. . to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest marcus papadopoulos in london is a historian analyst and author of the new book a rise let us see how to make sure of russia to world politics in budapest we have george samueli he's a podcast or at the gavel which can be found on you tube rumble are a channeling frost up rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i was appreciative of it is going to budapest 1st george we saw something quite remarkable at the end of last week we had the high commissioner from the european union with the foreign policy portfolio basically got his blank handed to him here in moscow the tone of this relationship despite my lot of relationship has changed remarkably what accounts for it george well i

it's almost like a like a lever to be pulled against russia and like to be used against russia and to get some political gain on the diplomatic arena however say this is an internal issue so why is it that western nations have come out and it been so quick to condemn the verdict of sovereign country well it was quite expected because for them alexina vollies a hero the the are hailing him as of the opposition leader if you are a supporter then of course you will view it as unjust yeah you will you will hear his arguments and you will disagree with the court but the court sided with the prosecution completely and here's an important detail the court didn't really give a new sentence or just reverse the previous ones the federal prison service in russia the relist their own statistics showcasing that election of ali it's not he's not getting special treatment here of course he stands out of the crowd of other thousands of people who have their suspended sentences reversed because he strives to be a politician he is an outspoken critic of the kremlin so there's also that there's always.

but calls for tougher sanctions against russia are getting louder. after the reported poisoning of opposition politician alex enough ali many demanded a halt to the construction of the north stream to local authorities refused to believe that construction might be stopped. being finalized can you really link the case of an avanti to a project like north stream 2 above what would it be better to look at these 2 events separately especially when the facts at least according to my assessment are not yet clear enough to place the blame on russian government. the mayor is voicing the opinion of the citizens of lukeman a seaside resort on the baltic sea because of the coronavirus there aren't enough tourists but there are also very few locals on the beach their opinion is almost unanimous. people think everything the russians do is bad that's not right the volley is unimportant north stream is important to. us can we afford to waste millions billions compromises have to be made i think it must be completed in the model dismissed because it's only one perso

so russia is not black. russia is a positive place. mr dmitriev, let me get a word in. this has nothing to do with my feelings or other western people's feelings about russia. this is about what russian people make of their own government. alexei navalny released that video, which showed a vast palace on the black sea worth, it seems, $1 billion, which he says was built with oligarchs�* money for president putin. now, it's not a question of what i make of that — it's a question of what more than 20 million russians who have watched that video online make of it. do you think russians are prepared to live in a system which, to so many of them, looks deeply corrupt? stephen, i already told you, the west needs to learn to really understand russia the way it is and not try to paint it black. i think we all have to recognise the great russian economic recovery from the fall of the soviet union that has taken place. we have to be honest, the majority of the russians strongly and unequivocally support president putin, and that's just a reality. and west needs to learn to li

it's not only russia that happens. and when this happened in a country with a group of people it is due to visionary has to intervene and these cases can be brought to justice and if there is excessive use of force that is way of putting things in order so after friday's events you might want to ask have we really see much progress in rebuilding trust i guess not really the answer is no. ok thank you anyway that was. there's been a major twist in the case of british teenager who was killed in a road accident involving the u.s. woman back in 2019 years fled britain claiming diplomatic community but a is but a u.s. court has heard that she was working for american intelligence at the time of the incident meaning that she might not have been immune from prosecution shoddy and would stash the has the story where it's been a year and a half since harry lost his life and the family are still seeking justice but it comes as the latest revelation which could be a potential game changer in the entire narrative is that it's emer

not in fact we see that russia has great opportunities for inoculation for foreigners living in russia as well i personally go to and feel grateful we see that russia is open to the distribution of its vaccine abroad not only is open to its export just like pfizer and astra zeneca but it also provides the opportunity to manufacture sputnik via broad it's not new concept of cooperation with other nations in terms of economy and health care i think you can subsequently lead to the improvement of relations between russia and the e.u. and it was that i mean even as i get any u.k. companies are considering a much criticized mode no job policy that would make vaccination a mandatory for employees in response trade unions are threatening legal action and i've asked the government to intervene. we think the primary house to keep people safe and i say trade unions you know we encourage him. to get that he what priority frontline work is to get that city but at same time we don't think given this so many people who even if. people should be victimized for having had stations that we think you kn

and russia and ukraine. the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee holds a confirmation hearing for someone to serve as. white house budget director. . president biden speaks with reporters prior to his meeting with business leaders concerning the pandemic economic rescue plan. now that the relations between russia and ukraine. >> good morning and good afternoon. good evening. i run the eurasian center. we have a wonderful convert -- conversation with you today with our panelists. can president biden get mr. putin out of ukraine? it is seven years since moscow seized its aggression with ukraine. mr. biden's phone call with mr. putin said he is not going to put american interests first without pushback. the question is what does this mean for moscow? our panelists include david kramer, senior fellow for human rights and democracy. director of the security studies program of the foreign policy council. ambassador alexander the former u.s. ambassador to moscow. former defense minister of uk

sees it to contango russia when it so what it sees as misinformation and to engage russia when there are issues in which the e.u. deems it necessary to do so strong words coming from the equivalent basically of the use for a mistake he's also vice president of the european commission. what we are going to see is it take around a week to find out exactly who will be the target of these sanctions against. against russia targeted against russian individuals that have been announced by the e.u. on monday ok frosty spring in prospect then from brussels towards moscow for now peter oliver in berlin thank you. max the british government appears to be behind a multi-million pound push to quote weaken the russian state leaked documents allege that russia and the london hopes to boost negative coverage of the country by seeking journalists and contractors to infiltrate russian media what i guess to have as the story. the plan was or it is simple enough the british government and its agencies recruit independent media sometimes even desired and direct their programming manage that in order to a

world to look to cripple russia's economy through sanctions and world to cripple russia that this is what putin is saying here russia would have to look into the possibility of cutting ties with the with the e.u. all together and there are plenty of examples other than sanctions as to how this how this plays out how europe is world just ridiculing all russia's will successes like we look at this but it could be vaccine it was written ridiculed from the get go we didn't get any benefit of the doubt at all that the beginning of the completely critics completely brushed aside all the stories or the positive experiences of those who pioneered and got the job even before the phase tree of phase 3 excuse me of trials was completed and they kept ridiculing the russians putting the vaccine up until the very last moment when it just became undeniable that sputnik up there among the top 3 of the most effective vaccines in the world. paris court has held the final hearings on the alleged rape by $25.00 fighters have an under-age girl decision is expected in the coming months but the issue has a

incremental punishment of russia has not worked. putin moved ahead with the no military expansion propaganda. we are hearing more about incrementalism. what would be a more forceful response and why is the u.s. and nato afraid to do it? david? david: i think sanctions have not really been ramped up in a serious way. we need to test that theory more seriously and by major sanctions against russian individuals. it is going to reach a point at some point this year with the elections, which will be pretty extreme in russia, to sanction putin himself. sanctioning people around him has not been enough, but i think if we started discussions about sanctioning mr. putin, that might be a u.s. only sanction. it is hard for me to envision leak member states supporting a decision -- league member states supporting a decision. negotiations from the past of not worked, visits to moscow have not worked, and it needs to be part of the larger strategy to push back against cyber attacks and hacking's to show them what we are capable of. nobody wants a

from russia accuses the e.u. of breaching international law the block imposes sanctions over the jailing of opposition figures. infiltrating russian language media and leaked documents suggest the british government sought to boost negative coverage and weaken russia. while in england prime minister boris johnson hopes it's 3rd time lucky with a step plan on lifting the latest lockdown starting with schools next month despite persistently high infection. and renowned italian opera singer gets the sputnik v.j. so here in moscow that 3rd russian vaccine is registered in the country. with global news and reaction 24 seventh's international. welcome to world news is out 1st for you then moscow sees a newly imposed sanctions as an attempt to interfere in russia's internal affairs the book's demanding the release of kremlin critic. who's serving jail time right now for breaching the turns of a suspended sentence for fraud. in response. to events around the situation of mr not only. we reach a political ribbon to impose

into the political culture of the belief that not only is russia or malign fools but the russia has in some sense some deep demonic powers able to influence develop since other is such a profound cultural shift that it's going to be very difficult to us to escape from that and that of course pushes russia and china together we see in all sorts of areas now military cooperation much more quickly cooperation economic factors infrastructure and then could just between russian energy in china and so one of these things are going to be very difficult to reverse the americans complain all the time about the north stream pipeline between russia and germany bypassing the central european states and how that creates a long term strategic shift well of course in the far east and because the change in a sense is taking place and then i say this is in a sense the promoter of it because most of these 2 states together is a mutual sense that they're under pressure from the americans of the other doesn't our states feels itself in a relative decline. risk flushing out and this is of great interest to

russia has gone into finland. all of these wars today are going to coalesce into this concept of world war ii. does everybody understand that? but that's us looking back at that. world war ii when germany went into poland. there was a finish war, there was a polish war, there was a norwegian war, devastate manchurian war, and they all coalesced. we in the united states say world war ii. the british say the second world war. all of that is, again, in context with the first world war, which wasn't known as the first world war. it was called the great war, which we don't use because it's no longer the great war. it's the second greatest war. great being, carved turn for most casualties. in this area, we don't have the pacific up, but 50 million people to 70 million people are going to be killed from 1939, the official start in europe, to the end in 1945. i say 50 million to 70 million. we still don't know the exact amount. that will be the greatest man-made disaster in the history of civilization. maybe with the exce

that relations with russia will be a normal life system that russia. a criminal but at the same high presidential lands says i don't like means the agreement about well how to pick out this little law with the law give china chance against russia and it was a trap and at european union as a little city. that sell a plane so it's saying thank sampler it think it's good. early unserious your work so author it's up to me and speaker immensely so what do they think about such statements by the president of ukraine but isn't in school agreements must be actually helpful just because they be allowed sanctions against russia we don't hear any reply is in response to that and i 1st sent y. because google any person with any. degree of common sense it's obvious that. there are artificial conditions that were fair and i have a principle and so of much good evening probably as surprised at that sad song where the european union traded to the caps a couple reaching with the russian federation selection restall i wouldn't want to end a principle so far loons and 3

you know it was back to russia so we know we had to sort of the cold war ducks russia is this. huge threat so it's always a matter of trying to justify the existence of this entity which has absolutely no justification. and somehow talking up some non existence threat and they say they're doing this. with that in asia and they're really nobody is because they're you you have here you have to start from scratch with with nato the united states was lucky because it was already there in existence you could just sort of keep it going through the demons of inertia but in asia they would have to start it from scratch and nobody's going to want to do it and then nobody in the united states wanted to precisely because we don't want to get involved in a war between india. in china between philippines and china. there are few would say it's relation they know where george already mentioned it but i think it's really important here it wouldn't let me look at mainstream media in the main broadsheets how they describe one policy under paul and ministrations you know over the last few decade

in danger then russia would cut relations when we've heard today is nothing resembling a threat to russia's economic or vital interests and so the e.u. in talking tough. showing itself as a worthy partner for the united states in a cold war propaganda exercise is saying clear of doing anything while threatening to do anything that might seriously damage the relations with russia and lead to a a hunt for 'd the options that couldn't threaten to would have been to to cut the north stream to project or of course think the new so-called nuclear option 2 has been in discussions for 3 years to kick russia out of the script nothing of the sort was on the table today so i think they can take comfort in moscow at 3. tap on the wrist which is an exercise internal to the united states and europe. and within europe is internal to the major powers germany france and the the most vigorous and say russian powers of the baltic states and all so give these are all internal matters in the e.u. just as the whole of russia gate was an internal u.s. domestic policy issue and which russia was unfortunately 'd we

diplomatic when it came to russia. 6 o'clock here in moscow international our top story this hour russia is expanding its expanding 3 european diplomats over their alleged participation in an authorized protest in moscow on january the 23rd the actions of the swedish german polish diplomats was described as unacceptable not corresponding to that professional status bosco also expressed hope too that the diplomatic missions and their personnel will follow the norms of international law the announcement does come this russia's foreign minister and the u.s. foreign policy chief met today in the russian capital we'll have more on that a bit like in the program. now there has been a major twist in the case of the british teenager hari done he was killed in a road accident involving the u.s. woman back in 2019 and is fled britain claiming diplomatic immunity but a humorous court has heard that she was working for a most american intelligence the time of the incident meaning that she might not have been immune from prosecution to edward stache the takes up the story where it's been a year and a

i'm sure there's no easy answer but given that you're all everyone on our panel here is an expert in russia. are russian liberals following out of love with the west because if they are all i can say is it's about time go ahead paul i say got started sort of yes and no but they remain committed to it an ideal of the west some sort of fantasy of the less they have which is so the west as it was until fairly recently but you do see a number of. now criticizing the sort of political correctness the west and the sort of modern world co-chairing council culture and so on interestingly in the process they end up sounding extraordinarily like you know consider different far rights people like exam to do good and some of the things that's of being said later could have come straight out of his mouth what's more significant is that coming out of the liberal catholic friend is a rather more shocking because as he said you know support of the west is very much the russian liberalism about it it's all very very closely associated historically with westernization and this idea that we should become a no

countries amounts for more than 40 percent of russia's trade turn out and russia's foreign minister lavrov has already so often his tone a bit saying that sanctions once prevents russia from deepening its investment partnership with europe so it's rather unlikely however we of course have to wait and see how russia is going to react our brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena with the latest there thank you now it's been a particularly tough few weeks for homeless people in the u.s. on top of the hardships of a pandemic they've also had to deal with extreme cold and snow storms that swept the country and with rent assistance programs expiring soon there are fears that many more americans could find themselves on the streets. a winter search mission in the city center of paterson new jersey volunteers are conducting the annual count of the homeless population at what bosy reach the evening shift for him this year's count is especially hard. because of cove and we have to have greater social distancing in the shelters the shelters are about 36 percent capacity of normal so obviously there

but that's a very good question i mean i think they should be because in part of russia's concern at that time was particularly at the conventional level of the u.s. and all these long range conventional weapons systems that russia did not happen that not developed but as we saw for instance in the syria conflict the russians able to send missiles several 1000 miles these conventional missiles so in that sense russia doesn't need to rely so much on the nuclear weapons as it felt that maybe it felt they had to a decade ago so there is that there's also a whole number of new russian nuclear weapons systems that people have probably seen that is very kind of exotic weapons nuclear powered weapons and so on that need to be taken into account in any you know new treaty by the way i know that if you get it back you were quite skeptical about the russian claims of having developed this nuclear power it nuclear article flying cruise missile. i think it's known as very best league in russian as high fall in english as it is that we have some very fabulous reports of its existence including re

it's not only russia that happens. you know the type of disobedience where they did with excessive use of force in the us and to tell you what to do when did happen and unhappily it happened. we. condemn excessive use of force and when this happened in a country where did i drew from all did you do judiciary to intervene and these cases can be brought to justice and if it is that excessive force british way of putting it into an order and i ask you put responsibilities put it to go to admit it is good it is of the people who behave badly. and to choose of having a strong group of mostly. so when it comes to such discussions between senior u.n. russian officials i guess this was probably a classic one i can even say a bit of optimism at the very beginning but then it all went down to the typical cracks in russia europe toys and all god down to the accusations that are usually being thrown between the 2 parties well it's up for you to decide where this these kind of relations will head in the future after such kind of ta

in the headlines this saturday russia becomes the 1st country to approve 3 homegrown coronavirus vaccines after coming back to the green light. also splits begin to emerge in europe over america's role in the block security as not everyone is convinced by president joe biden's mantra that america is back. think it's time for us to take much malted burden the foam on protection you feel too much dependent on the us we need to. we can put all citizens a situation to be no more put take to the voters. and there's no sign of protests dying down and spain as the country sees its 4th night of violent demonstrations over their arrest of a camel and a rapper accused of glorifying terrorism. you're watching are to international bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. russia now has a hat trick of vaccines to tackle the chrono marse it comes after the approval of kofi back which was created by moscow scientific center and its developers believe it will also offer protection against new coronavirus variants and we can cross live now to our correspondent in