sanctions russia. we have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. to my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u.s.-russia business council. diplomatformer career who was deputy assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. during the previous administration, the obama administration, he was also the deputy chief at the u.s. embassy embassyw and the u.s. in cause extent in addition to a number of other important posts. george, who is senior director for -- director for intelligence programs at the center for the national interest. george was a career u.s. intelligence professional who led the russia analysis unit at the central intelligence agency. he was an advisor on russia to vice president dick cheney during the bush administration. he was also the president of a data analytics firm called behavior matri

russia relations. well it's another hit for them really and this all started last year during the presidential election of course one which russia was accused of having meddled in that election since then there has been no concrete proof presented whatsoever but yet the claims persist and since then over the past year russia has been hit with a number of sanctions by the sea and it seems that the scales were just tipped too far for putin earlier this month when trump did sign off on yet another round of sanctions against russia and at that point putin did respond ordering that the u.s. embassy reduce its staff numbers in russia by seven hundred fifty five people so and of course today we're seeing the response that the united states saying that they have made the reductions that were requested and they are responding with having the russian consulate in san francisco needs to be closed down along with an annex here in d.c. and in new york closed down by september the second a very very short timeline a

russia cannot be russia unless it is a great power. i remember in the 1990's, very often hearing russians say to me russia is condemned to be a great power. the second is the sense of fragility of the social basis of the order that might be threatened by democratic ideas. in china, i do not know. my colleagues have not seen it as a threat that they certainly move against western ideas coming in. we talk about the collapse of the soviet union. we think of the collapse of the soviet union was a total natural process. the way it is regarded in russia or china is to take it very seriously. that has relevance to our regime. what was it that caused the soviet union collapsed -- two collapse?- to to reforms of trying an authoritarian system and power -- in power. it makes it extremely difficult because it seems to raise in norman dangers -- enormous dangers. >> i do not want to tickle your opportunity to comment -- to take away your opportunity to comment. i want to talk about the strategic balance in areas of cooperation among these three re

russia relations to an all time low in a tweet the us president said that it's thanks to the people on capitol hill who forced him to sign the anti russia sanctions bill he said that he had to abide by the decision of the lawmakers after their landslide vote last week gave him no choice on why congress can now check trump's deal making potential is by stopping him from lifting until russia restrictions the new law requires the president to attend congressional approval for any such move earlier we discussed the growing political crisis in washington with any patrik. i guess no president would like to be. shoes right now times really are getting tough as they can get for the president you know being america's top man in charge but at the same tommy think of it not being able to exercise his power and even worse being cornered into making the decisions he doesn't want to make just to keep order and as we've been hearing from the white house spokesperson who's been explaining that very signature under that sanctions bill president signed countering america's adversaries through sanctions

russia's s. four hundred surface to air system is designed to shoot down enemy missiles that can be ready within three minutes and has a maximum altitude of around thirty kilometers with a range of about four hundred a turkey says it had tried to purchase similar systems from washington for the us refused and that's why ankara switched to business partners. upon why should this be a concern each country should take certain measures to ensure its security which are the side to ensure these measures it takes the necessary steps how many times have we talked with america but it did not work out so like it or not we began to make plans about the s four hundred our interests departments the negotiating and this step will be taking another thorn in our u.s. targets relations as the turkish media's attacks on u.s. special envoy brett mcgurk he's being criticized for promoting the military partnership between america and the syrian kurds something ankara has repeatedly condemned our guest told us that th

you speaking for myself, i own nothing in russia, i have no loans in russia, i don't have deals in russia. >> reporter: one year into the complex probe the fbi has reviewed financial transitions of the president and his family and campaign associates. cnn is told they've combed through shell companies and trump-branded companies. they scrutinized a roster at trump tower in manhattan reaching back several years. officials familiar with the investigation tell cnn special counsel robert mueller's people have examined the backgrounds of associates related to trump. >> miss universe, 2013 -- >> reporter: -- dating back to the 2013 miss universe pageant he hosted in moscow. >> thank you for your amazing hospitality -- >> reporter: cnn could not determine whether the review included trump's tax returns. even investigative leads that have nothing to do with russia but involve trump associates are being referred to the special counsel to encourage subjects of the investigation to cooperate. >> the entire thing has been a witch hunt. >> reporter: president trump keenly aware of the financial focus

his of the push that is what russia should be doing that's what i advised russia to do in that's what they're doing right now in other words if one power has failed to deliver the goods and reach of suffering shouldn't be invited everybody is to cooperate with the power to bring the results that we seek and this approach the consultative to process launched in moscow and broadening this process to including the taliban and the afghan government would hopefully bring us that now the u.s. secretary of defense general james mattis has already called russia a strategic competitor when it comes to afghanistan so he clearly doesn't appreciate development corporation as much as you do and i think that also reflects the sounds of insecurity psychological insecurity that the americans have to sort out first it has little to do with afghanistan i think it's internal american problem how do you think the world the regional power should talk to the united states to persuaded in the. existence of mutual interest that it could be actually beneficial for all to join forces and finally put an end to

russia import sanctions on iran russia went along with sanctions against north korea and there were no russia as important sanctions on north korea so but but but like i just said important thing is here is how a plan to move forward i mean when i saw from the u.k. from the americans is that something must be done something must be done the usual mantra they don't know what to do that's the problem here the chinese and the russians have proposed jointly jointly how to move forward on north korea and that is very important because it's the only two major powers i see pushing diplomacy here because that's what we need we do have voices in the united states talking about preventative war this is insanity well look at the way that that's going on but now he went to iraq and what happened with the ever increasing sanctions regime against iraq year after year the sanctions would be deepened that increased but why didn't with hundreds of thousands by some estimates of children and those people who was our landlord and you remember what madeline albright said once about that and where did that

and russia analyst martin mccauley says that russia's ambassador to the u.s. will have a tough time. it's timed by the americans to embarrass him. and that he he in fact. is going to have find it very difficult to perform his duties and to establish trust because by his main job as a diplomat is not to trust between the two governments. and say let's talk. let's get together and find what what we can do together and so on you can find it very very difficult because they when it comes. to russia. so the buses are. really learns on the worst possible day and the only thing you can say for is it. is up to him to get better. and as we've already mentioned the display by the u.s. can be traced all the way back to the american presidential elections and alleged russian meddling occasions of russian interference continue to be thrown even during special senate hearings russia's blatant interference in the united states twenty sixteen presidential elections was unprecedented in both scale and scope many have said this is actually the crime of the century. if you think

russia. russia itself. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts now. >>> russia is fake news. the special counsel investigating trump and the russians, impanel as grand jury in washington, d.c. >> believe me, there is no collusion. russia is fine. >> what we're learning about where this investigation is headed. >> this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> the new bipartisan push to prevent the president from firing robert mueller. >> any effort to go after mueller could be the beginning of the end of the trump presidency. >> and how the president is responding tonight. >> mr. president, are you considering firing robert mueller? >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. we now have multiple reports that indicate significant forward movement in special counsel robert mueller's criminal investigation into potential collusion between trump campaign and russia. first to the "wall street journal" which says that he has impaneled a grand jury in washington, d.c. nbc news has not independently c

-russia relationship debate. standsould be in news quite soon and some of the oures are already online on website. questions, let me ask each of you as i call on identify yourself for our speakers and also to your hand so that my colleagues with our microphones to find you and ensure that we can all hear your question. open it up. first?e to go sorry, if i can ask you to wait the mic. you sound one of terribly enthusiastic about the sanctions. given pessisms to change behavior the way we would want to change behavior. to me this sounds like a net negative with a huge downside and very little upside. this?e we bothering to do take thatts to that first? >> we probably not the people you should be asking. a follow up question after that question. on this iserspective that this is being done largely purposes.ic political i find is hard to disagree with that. >> i think if you look at it from business perspective, if you looked at the obama era, sanctions.ver like they're not going to. but the obama administration und

the aggressor when it comes to russia they have all the all the nato troops on the border of russia they helped overthrow the ukrainian government with the with the help of the ngos they had to keep having missiles in the direction of russia and then of course you have the sanctions which are an act of war that self so how can the media keep portraying as russia's aggressor when the evidence suggests the contrary just because russia cares about its border or they want to protect their sovereignty somehow there are literally hitler of the next over the next boogie man that the united states needs to topple so are the propaganda coming from the coersion news now we get it's just it's both comical and frightening michael if you've worked in government at the high levels here let's talk about the american election being hacked whatever that really really means because i don't know i mean you were sitting with people in power that were well aware of how the united states in meddled in elections all around the world and that they wouldn't think twice about doing that would they but the ev

sberbank hiring trump's russia lawyer. there's all of these russian banks getting strange new starring roles in american politics. there's another one, alfa bank, veb bank, sberbank and another one called vtb bank. it's a very large russian bank not as big as veb bank but it is very big. vtb pabank is sanctioned by the u.s. government as punishment for crimea because this bank is seen as the russian government. it's an arm of the russian government and that's how the u.s. government views them. in fact if you go to vtb's website tonight, click on about vtb and they'll tell you in exact mathematical terms how they're controlled by the russian government. the russian government owns and controls 60.9% of the vtb bank. the majority shareholder of the vtb bank is the russian government. what that means in plain english is that putin runs vtb. putin controls the bank and what it does and what it spends on. and today we learned that up until last year, up until the middle of the presidential campaign, vtb bank was lined up and c

anyway, russia's coming up later in the show. meanwhile, back in the united states, russia. folks, things are not looking good for president son and store-brand billy baldwin, donald trump, jr., because of a meeting he took last year with russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya. and now we've learned that there was another russian at that meeting, russian lobbyist rinat akhmyetshin. ♪ ♪ funny detail-- he's reportedly a former soviet counterintelligence officer. of course, when it comes to don, jr., there's not much intelligence to counter. now, here's the deal-- ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) now, akhmyetshin "denies any current ties to russian spy agencies." it must be true. remember the first rule of spy club-- tell everyone you're in spy club. ( laughter ) point is, that's just another lie because, last week, don, jr. didn't mention this russian guy. no, he said this: >> this is everything. this is everything. >> stephen: this is everything. must have slipped his mind. with all that hair gel, things just slide out. ( piano riff ) ( laughter ) so there was a fifth

with russia. i have drawn. john, are you a smart man. i have nothing to do with russia. i have nothing to do with russia. i have nothing to do with russia. maybe -- they say donald trump is involved. the answer is no. i had nothing to do with it. i had nothing to do with russia. i have no deals there. i don't know anything. still we saw john roberts report about michael cohen, trump attorney, executive vice president of the trump organization emailing with dimitri pesek off to push through this trump tower deal. that was in january 2016. we are told mr. trump signed off on a letter of intent. >> nothing came of it. you will recall michael: was besmirched by many earlier this year because they had the wrong michael cohen. saying he had been in russia. michael cohen said he had never been in russia. he was out with his son when they said he was there. he's already been besmirched once. nothing came of it. no deal was made, no visit was made and when the president says he doesn't deal in russia, watc

i have no loans in russia. i don't have any deals in russia. >> reporter: now, one year into this complex probe, the fbi has reviewed financial records related to the trump organization. the president himself as well as his family members and campaign associates. cnn has told that they've gone through the list and scrutinized the roster of tenants at trump tower in manhattan reaching back several years. officials familiar with the investigation tell cnn mueller's team has examined the backgrounds of russian business associates connected to trump, dating back to the 2013 miss universe pageant that trump hosted. cnn could not determine whether the review has included trump's tax returns. but even investigative leads that have nothing to do with russia, but involve trump associates are being referred to the special counsel to encourage subjects of the investigation to cooperate. trump's team seeking to limit mueller's investigation. >> the president's point is he doesn't want the special counsel to move beyond the

-russia relations. what did the most recent sections that now have been put on russia actually do? guest: it's a variety of things. the most unprecedented element of it is the congressional review. so basically, the number of the sanctions that have already been imposed by executive order, by president obama and could have been repealed by the stroke of a pen by president trump can now only be repeeled with essentially the approval of congress. and that is unprecedented in the history of u.s. sanctions. there are a huge variety of news sanctions imposed for a number of different activities such as the interference in the election, russian activities in syria, this activity in ukraine. there are reports demanded from the executive branch by the russian olgark. -- ol garth. host: what are we talking about? guest: the sanctions come in a number of different forms. there are visa bans and their asset freezes. there are financing restrictions on russian institutions. there are transaction bans. any companies

-russia relationship, i debate. that should be a news stands i think quite soon, and some of the pieces are already online on our website.as i o as i opened up to questions, let me ask each of you as i call on you please to identify yourself for our speakers, and also toha raise your hand so that my colleagues with our microphones are able to find you and ensure that we can all hear your question. let's open it up. who would like to go first? [inaudible] >> sorry, enough i could ask you to wait for the mic, sorry. >> neither one of you sound i was a terribly enthusiastic about sanctions. so given the pessimism or a parent pessimism, and george, tickle your analysis, and given quite frankly the track record of sanctions german-speaking getting any regime let alone the russians to change behavior the way we would want them to change behavior, to me this sounds like a net negative with a huge downside risk and very little upside. th why are we bothering to do this? >> who wants to take that first? >> we are probably no

i don't have buildings in russia. they say i own buildings in russia. i don't. they said i made money from russia. it's not my thing. i don't do that. over the years i looked at maybe doing a deal in russia. i never did one. other than the miss universe pageant. >> given the fact now based on our reporting that mueller and his team are looking into trump-related finances, could that be a red line for the president? could that lead to him firing robert mueller? >> i think that is why you see a bipartisan effort to prevent that thing from taking place. what we are seeing is democracy at work. one could say that president trump is perhaps envious of vladimir putin because you see even in the tweet today that he sent out he still seems to blame congress and fake media as opposed to russians. if this were happening in russia yes vladimir putin could put an end to this. we see from republicans now in the senate and in congress speaking loudly saying the reason we are here is not because of us or the media but because of vladimir putin. and so for the president to cont

, no contract with russia, no contract with russia. and it's been, gosh, only the end of august. it's been eight months of nonstop contact with russia. so of course, there were channels by which russia could pass information or channels where information could be exchanged. the thing is, is we don't know, obviously if we have seen e-mails here, we haven't seen information showing there is hacked e-mails and they are going to come out and this is how it will go. that's really the smoking gun. but what we are seeing here is just another example of another channel of people who have access to or claim to have access to high level russian officiales who can get things done and get information and get close to putin. >> and to that point, and here is the sort of one take away and one question i think for future reporting, you know, we never know -- we don't know, we are seeing a very small sample of the e-mail. we don't know what happened after the infamous don trump e-mail meeting. it to me, and i will ask you to weigh in on this, we have

administration to mend ties with russia foreign policy hawks and their merican political establishment are standing firmly against a warming of relations. is there a way forward for a last go on washington we ask a woman who helped the two great powers find common ground at the height of the cold war advisor to president ronald reagan russian scholar and author. is with me today. twenty five years since the end of the cold war the u.s. and russia once again find themselves a broiled in a standoff with aid rivalries regenerated and tensions rising with the white house changeover there is hope that personal goals are we. may be remembering spiralling out of control. of a new us president be able to pour in common ground with moscow and shakes there's more oil to settle clashes of economic and political interests a little more personal approach by the two leaders really be a decisive factor in lifting the relationship out of the rubble. suzanne massie advisor to president reagan on russian foreign policy it's really great to have you on our show today welcome thank you until happy to be h

i had nothing to do with russia, folks. i have no dealings with russia. i have no deals in russia. i have no deals that could happen in russia, because we've stayed away. and i have no loans with russia. i have nothing to do with russia. i have no investments in russia. none whatsoever. i don't have property in russia. >> no property in russia. so here's what's different right now. even if that statement by donald trump were true, today's revelation shows it was not for lack of trying. the trump organization wasn't just trying to build a trump tower in moscow, when the project stalled it tried so hard, they wanted to get vladimir putin to help seal this deal. and putin is not known for his charity work. if he does something for you, he expects something in return. let's get right to it with carol lee, national political reporter on the russia story. richard painer, white house ethics white house for the bush 43 administration. glen covers the white house for "the new york times," of course. richard, this looks big to my investigative eyes. i'm curious, your view of the significance

the crowd is happy to see russia on top. and russia winning most of these events. they want 19 out -- they won 19 out of 28 events. one more interesting point is that the competitors list, 28 different countries, includes a who's who was countries that president donald trump has threatened recently including iran, china, and venezuela. russia very much working with those in these army games. >> all right. war games as a spectator sport. thanks. oren liebermann in moscow. >>> let's check cnn "money stream." after months of stocks coasting to records, investors are showing signs of caution. the dow and s&p 500 suffered their worst week since march as tensions with north korea spooked the market last week. u.s. stock futures are higher right now. retail earnings could shape trading it. walmart, target, and home depot among big stores reporting quarterly profits. >>> this is not exactly what rank-and-file employees want to hear -- are you going to pay more for health benefits next year. the total costs for employer health care benefits will rise to 5% next year to more

these new measures hit russia's energy and defense sector and also affect iran and north korea russia has already reacted imposing counter segued and reducing america's diplomatic presence in russia by over seven hundred fifty members and seizing two diplomatic properties today a statement from trump ended with the president noting that he can make far better deals with foreign countries than congress but if measures such as these continue to be enacted he may be prevented from doing just that. it's being done for all she's director of grassroots political consulting good to speak. donald trump called the spill significantly flawed obviously doesn't like it was he signed it. he had the opportunity to reject this bill and have his legal team challenge the unconstitutional provisions that would strip away his presidential authority from being able to not enact some of these sanctions that thirty and sixty day hold that congress illegally put in in their oversight role but the larger part behind this is this is a continuation of a geo political desire from syria ukraine sanctions since t

been respected by russia. finland has been free of russia, thatf the few countries have been for 100 years. and russia has a lot of respect for finland, so that's always good. i think finland is doing fine with russia. and i hope that the united will someday be able to have a very good relationship with russia also. very good for world peace and for other things. thank you. if finland'sw-up, relationship with russia were to u.s. --ate, would the what kind of assistance would the u.s. be willing to give to bilaterally if we need it? >> as i said before, our relationship with finland is a very close one. and we're always ready to help finland. one of the thaings that is -- happening iss you're purchasing large amounts of our great f18 aircraft from boeing. and it's one of the great fighter jets. and you're purchasing lots of other military equipment. and i think purchasing very wisely. the military equipment and i actually agree with everything you purchased. we talked about it before. really ainland is respecte

congress that's the view of russia's foreign minister who met his american counterpart on the sidelines of a major forum in asia. the week's top stories president trump signs a new russia sanctions bill langar in several of america's key allies moscow says it's a declaration of a full scale trade war and the pressure is stepped up against north korea to the u.n. security council vote unanimously for tough new sanctions on pyongyang over its missile tests and. dictator. the venezuelan president is also targeted by u.s. restrictions over his formation of a controversial new legislative body that will rewrite the constitution. hello there the latest developments and look back at the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international now moscow's top diplomat says it is strong anti russian sentiment in the u.s. congress that has led to the latest downturn in relations between the two countries so made the comment at a meeting with his american counterpart rex tillerson earlier. takes a closer look. it was a very lengthy meeting it seemed like a very friendly meeting the t

congress that's the view of russia's foreign minister he met his american counterpart on the sidelines of a major security forum on sunday. also in the week's top stories president trump signs a new russian sanctions bill angering several of america's key u.s. allies says is a declaration of a full scale trade war. the pressure is stepped up against north korea too as the u.n. security council voted unanimously for tougher sanctions on pyongyang over its missile tests and. dictator the venezuelan president is also targeted by u.s. restrictions over his formation of a controversial new legislative body that will rewrite the constitution. i'm rosana loquitur with a round up of the biggest news stories from the last seven days it's the weekly here on auty international moscow's top diplomat says strong anti russian sentiment in the u.s. congress has led to the latest downturn in relations between the two countries. made the comment at a meeting with his american counterpart rex tillerson on sunday in a day or two to takes a closer look at the story. it was a very lengthy meeting it seemed

, but does russia have investments in trump? would mr. trump be willing to release his taxes to provide transparency on this issue? - mr. trump has said that his taxes are under audit and he will not be releasing them. it has nothing to do with russia. - so to be clear, mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs? - that's what he said, i-- that's what i said-- that's obviously what my position is. - [imitating dj scratching] that-that-that's what-- that's-that-that's what-that-- that-that-that-that-- [imitates record scratch] that-that-that-that-that... remix! ♪ - all right, we're back now with our breaking news, and this is big breaking news. michael flynn has resigned. - flynn's shocking departure comes after just three weeks on the job. - he is the shortest-serving national security advisor now in modern history. - yeah! [cheers and applause] yes! trump! trump! trump! trump! donald trump finally draining the swamp of the people he brought to the swamp. president trump is a genius, people. he hires a

and russia. the russian reaction. so when it comes to the hopes that russia u.s. ties could go back on track it looks like we have reached the end of the line here at least judging by the three points that were made by the russian prime minister dmitri medvedev and his latest facebook post the rhetoric says that all the first point made by dmitri medvedev is that they are absolutely no more hopes that the new u.s. administration can do anything to restore the relations the second point that mr medvedev is making is that washington has begun a fully fledged trade war against russia and finally point number three he is saying that the donald trump administration has shown complete impotence and simply lost in the way it has been dealing with a congress simply lost to the u.s. establishment when the u.s. congress initially approved a new round of sanctions even without the signature by donald trump moscow already head back we know that more than seven hundred fifty american diplomats will have to leave moscow and also in retaliation to similar measures by the u.s. go

russia's former ambassador to the u.s. to get his fiasco opens up in his first t.v. interview since leaving the post about the scandal over contacts with american diplomats also to come this hour secret documents show that biotech giant monsanto tried to influence media and scientists to improve the reputation of a controversial weed killer we talked to one of the firm's executives tapped. another miner is rescued from a flooded diamond mine in the far east of russia after spending nearly twenty four hours trapped underground eight people remain missing. but i welcome you watching r.t. international start this hour with breaking news because video of an air strike has emerged from yemen but due to its graphic nature it has been heavily edited and we must warn you it is disturbing it does show the bodies of a family being dragged from the rubble following an alleged saudi led coalition strike nine people were killed including six children after their house collapsed according to local officials the air strike occurred between a battle during a battle between the u.s.

>> we didn't talk about russia. we talked about opioids, where he's taking a strong stand and i appreciate what he's done with regard to fighting back against what you talked about earlier which is unfortunately an epidemic around our country. with regard to russia, again, we want to have a good relationship with them, should be working together on a lot of things together include the middle east, including fighting back against terrorism and violent extremism. but it's got to be based on the kind of terms that america always insist and. by the way, i don't think our relationship with russia is as bad at the height of the cord war. we have communication with them, are working with them. we established the ability to actually have some decent dialogue on some issues including, again, pushing back against terrorism. but it has to be done on the basis that is honest and where we are holding them to account for things they're doing that are affecting us and other democracies. look what they've done, wolf, in europe. whe

breaking news donald trump signs his approval of new sanctions against russia despite claiming it significantly floors and contains clearly unconstitutional provisions. to destroy north korea's program and north korea told me that. he while the u.s. is preparing for war with north korea that's according to a senator it comes amid rising tensions between washington and pyongyang. and german authorities are missing deadlines to deport a man suspected of committing friday's deadly knife attack in hamburg. international. starts with breaking news for you president trungpa signed a new sanctions bill against russia becomes a response to alleged meddling by moscow in the u.s. presidential election because live now to washington speak to our correspondent that jacqueline jacqueline is this come as a surprise. not really i mean president trump has rather reluctantly signed this bill into law he released a statement saying that while he favors tough measures to deter aggressive behavior by foreign powers the bill is seriously flawed and he only signed it for the state sake of national unity and the pres

russia meddled in the american election russia the american election there are investigations going on now we have the public hasn't been given any new proof but the u.s. government in congress has already made its drawn its conclusions when we have no conclusions whatsoever i mean that this is the folly of all of this here you again act before you know what the what the facts are on the ground and they're not interested in facts because none of them have really been produced the socks out from under my bed. but the bottom line is all of these accusations there is no evidence presented there can't even be any evidence because neither the f.b.i. the n.s.a. the cia the office the office of the director of national intelligence no one actually looked at the purported scene of the crime that democratic national committee servers where e-mails were supposedly hacked by russia wiki leaks says they got them from a whistleblower and then these e-mails expose. the d.n.c. and the hillary can claim maine colluded to. break their own primary to have hillary clinton elected and that is what this is

stranded or reunite with russia. the campaign to help with their safe return. fourteen civilians including children are reportedly killed in saudi led coalition air strike in the capital. and the libyan switzerland is accused of spreading hate speech against religious groups and nationalities while receiving more than half a million euros in state benefits. for me in the tape this friday evening at seven. and this is the news from r.t. international first breaking development the russian speaking children that stranded orphanage in the iraqi capital have now returned home it's believed their parents fled to the country taking the youngsters with the to join islamic state. while the five children have now returned safe they have some are breaking stories of their time in water on iraq all the details earlier from correspondent donald they have been brought to russia to the city of grozny in the russian republic of chechnya and from what we understand they're about to meet their loved ones now this whole story really has been an emotional roller coaster for every

words and using it against him in russia media. they're labeling the sanctions as, quote, quoting the president saying it's potentially unconstitutional and that it's significantly flawed. the prime minister medvedev showed it is total weakness by handing over executive power to congress in the most humiliating way. if you think in foreign leaders, especially in vladimir putin, someone who is very powerful, for that country and that president to turn around and call president trump someone who is weak, that definitely has to hurt and be an embarrassment and black eye for the president. gloria is right. if the president had come out initially and said i support what the intelligence community has told me time and time again, that russia did interfere in the election, we wouldn't be here. we're in a situation where congress felt they had no choice but to do what they did. now we're in a position where russia is angry and trying to use this to their advantage and president trump is trying to focus on something else. >> and wolf, if i

are all quite the say without russia so we're not going to show . on our channels and that means it doesn't have the broadcasting revenue which is substantial from russia so the longer it continues the longer they war continue to be hit in the pocket and ice great to get your views thanks for joining us on all this cash more pressure sociology at aston university in sports author and lecturer thank you so much. my pleasure. and thursday marked the first working day for the new constituent assembly in venezuela that was elected at the weekend the vote was followed by violent protests the now been unrest in venezuela for some four months with the opposition demanding that president maduro step down monday washington post sanctions against the president's private assets in response madeira claimed he would be intimidated by what he calls the imperialist power he spoke to attorney an investigative journalist eva golinger she told us that the u.s. is openly undermining the power of the venezuelan government. but dora himself he joined a very exclusive cl

once again, under the 1997 nato russia founding act, russia agreed to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other or any other state in sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence. each other or any other state in sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence. unfortunately, russia is not adhering to the letter, much less the spirit of these international commitments. the u.s. and our allies will continue to press russia to honor its minsk commitments and our sanctions will remain in place until moscow reverses the actions that triggered them. as president trump has made clear, the united states remains committed to diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine. i too am especially pleased to be here today with the u.s. special representative. ambassador volker is coordinating closely with our allies in these efforts. as secretary tillerson, our secretary of state, said in july, the united states' goals are to restore ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and to seek the safety and security of all ukrainian citi