russian in appearance. balancing now as leader of the state between this personal age and interest of state building. he is part of the networks but begins a crack down on them. cracks down in 1925 the soldier ofat 1917 who becomes the head of the central executive committee, he need to stop writing letters in the languages of though minorities even this was stalin's native language he said stop doing that. we can't have a state which correspondence is conducted in a dozen languages. he carefully manages himself.tation of sometimes stalin emphasizes that russian.t a other times he affirms russia's role in the soviet union. he is giving his most famous speech which is a toast but in ussian people this georgian toasting style. stalin, as we know, ultimately as a near himself absolutist ruler in this all of hic empire above these networks. my talk i nning of talked about new chronology for about war and revolution. 1922 ger war from 1914 to and longer revolution beginning in 1905 and we can think if this movem

let me give you a flavor of what's being said from the russian side a russian foreign ministry spokesman came out and said they're always trying to put down put us down in everything a way of life our culture our history and our sport what do you say to such sentiments ridiculous i mean it's the soul and circle movement mentality we see it with nato they're afraid that nato isn't circling this well i think most people in the west realize this is ridiculous and hopefully they will take it too serious that's russia's problem of they feel that the west is in a circle and that's russia's problem they think that the i.o.c. is going after them for doping when they've been caught red handed i think most people outside russia see it differently not him has been looking very thoughtful daria's be looking very full diary you say you're post a reaction to this you talk about the doping scandal of the whole saga being painful tell us about the pain well to be honest i guess just like most people in russia i did not expect the russian team to win the sochi olympics so when russia won it was a great s

-russian relations with the russian ambassador to the united states. this event was hosted by the world affairs council of northern california. [applause] amb. anatov: it is a great honor for me to be here. i would like to thank the council for this opportunity to be with you. important to discuss a very burning issue, what should we do together? do we need each other? are we partners? re: enemies? who we are, the united states and the russian federation? blame anyone for the current situation in russian-american relations, but today is the first official remarks by me as an ambassador for the russian federation to the united states. [applause] amb. anatov: i am not a magician. killing inou to stop chechnya. stop killing gay people in chechnya. people left alone in chechnya. we need to protect gay people. stop killing gay chechnya and's. chechnyans. gay chechens. stop killing gay chechens. stop killing gay chechens. stop killing gay chechens. [crowd noise] amb. anatov: you can see our relations are complicated. it seems to me everybody has the right to

crime, russian financial crime, russian money laundering, russian corruption than i did, and i knew quite a bit. >> according to weiner, steal occasionally provided reports on developments inside putin's russia to his colleagues at the state department. >> the people working russia all the time valued the reports. they thought they were well sourced. they felt they were remarkably timely. >> the state department wasn't the only u.s. agency to rely on christopher steele. >> i understood he had a relationship with the fbi relate together fifa soccer standal and had been a significant source for them in making cases in that area. >> in 2016, though, the americans calling christopher steele weren't fbi agents. the call he got in 2016 was from a small washington research firm called fusion gps. fusion gps was found by former "wall street journal" reporters. this is one of fusion founders described his suspect company's mission when he spoke at a 2009 sem posium on investigative reporting at the university of california at berkeley. >> hoping that people who have an interest in bringing t

potentially maybe hit the russian and i'm not sure but they'll be able to wear you know the russian colors again and hold the russian flag they fail it will draw a line under this whole episode do you think that will be the case if you think this is just stigmatized russian athletes forever. i can't believe it would stigmatize them forever i mean look. u.s. has had the doping scandal in baseball the u.s. team has had the doping scandal in the tour de france. you know i think people have gotten over those things. i'd like to think you know that this would not stigmatize them forever but you know it seems like countries especially the u.s. canada and great britain would like to be stigmatized forever and i don't go along with that dan one of the other things that i think is the russian officials that when they spoke today said that they're hoping that these russian athletes that clean athletes those individuals will build bridges you know will that will this draw a line under the whole repeated press negative press that we see against russia and of doping to think they go ahead and th

russian officials yet. well you know here in the zone of course it's been a very tense day anticipating what kind of announcement would come from the international olympic committee following a day of deliberations behind closed doors that were closed to the media here who were kept inside a press room for most of the day waiting to hear what would be announced the i.o.c. have in fact said that russia is being suspended from the games but not individual athletes now this is a decision that's certainly going to be and it's already being seen as quite a fruitful not just to athletes who are pretty looking forward to participating at these winter olympics just two months from now but also the millions of fans in russia who of course see it as a source of special pride to see their own athletes being able to compete and also here russian as well as wear the uniforms and this is not going to be happening now we do know of course that following this latest decision the i.o.c. has said that russian athletes indivi

the russian olympic committee. the ioc reserves the right to take measures against and sanction other individuals implicated in this system. the russian 0lympic committee will reimburse the costs incurred by the ioc on investigations and contribute to the establishment of the independent testing authority in the total sum of 15 million us dollars to build the capacity and integrity of the global anti—doping system. the ioc may partially or fully lift the suspension of the russian 0lympic committee from the commencement of the closing ceremony of the olympic winter games in 2018. provided these decisions are fully respected and implemented by the russian 0lympic committee and by the invited athletes and officials. this decision should draw a line under this damaging episode and serve as a ca ta lyst this damaging episode and serve as a catalyst for a more effective and more robust anti—doping system led by wada. thank you very much and now i'm ready to take any questions you may have. well we will leave that new

the russian british chamber of commerce and the russian federation's trade representative to britain tons of mainstream media horror stories about moscow's expense easing nine teeth into a bid for economic partnership in fin bowl this is coming up in part two of this special russia u.k. trade ties edition i'm going underground. here's what people have been saying about redacted in night just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to lunch you know a lot of the really packed a punch. yam is the john oliver of harvey americans do the same we are apparently better than food. and see people you never heard of love back to the night my president of the world bank though they didn't write me. send us an e-mail join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sport business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back we're still at the russian british business forum twenty seventeen at the queen elizabeth the second center in westminster and joining me now is the chair of the board of directors of the russian british cha

russia the or put you on the russian side russian officials who's the opportunity to be heard we had. a russian delegation there are today in the i.o.c. executive board gave them again the opportunity to express their most selves. in these. meetings after an order. president of the russian olympic committee apologized. there are those things you. see there are there are a complete and full decision of the i.o.c. executive. order. mr buffett you said. that you were attacked in the center of the games in sochi. the ground only a few meters away from the athletes will it. you personally spend some nights during the games. russia as we heard still denies that they cheated ruthlessly. in your opinion could you could you hide. that when belling seeing the sanctions and a little wish could you please also answer the question in your native language thank you. very clearly that these represents an unprecedented take on the integrity of the olympic games. what i have said. when the first allegations were coming up and there we said if it's proven true it's unprecedented to take on the into equ

of russians of the majority of the russians and the majority of russia. doesn't want to liberal democratic leader we first of all wants to have a strong powerful and but to articulate that could restore. the glory of our country the independence and freedom for our society for our. state and that is the first demand after that the second amendment is not civil society is just social justice i think death. a cold place fulfills very well these bought into joe politics and the distorting celebrity and that is why he's so popular and why we support and keep but he. said. he hasn't done anything to it in order to restore social justice anything keep it in some social aspect he's. a liberal by saying i mean this is a right here because we have to take a very short break but we'll certainly come back to this very interesting subject after every short break statement. snow room good them bridge to come in you stupid to it. yao's knows to. the salk of the poor old polish. grass cutting insisting that we did not in keeping him i am. i was to twenty list. because t

i think some may think they should be no russian athletes there, a complete ban. the ioc has not done that, they've gone down a different path saying they will be able to compete but as neutrals. we had several neutral athletes competing at the world athletics championships in london this summer. there is perhaps the threat that vladimir putin who has had a close relationship with thomas back, make all neutral athletes not to ta ke back, make all neutral athletes not to take part at all. ian mccall for a boycott of all russians on of this mike bryan on those who may have been under the old regime of institutionalised doping. we may be going back to the days of 1980 and 1984 of course we had boycotts at the summer olympics in moscow and in los angeles by america and then the soviet union as was. the irony is that we could be seeing a return to those days, russia came back into the fold in 1988 but of course it is another south green games this time and they may decide not to compete at all given the restrictions being placed upon them. they could see that as a loss

and the russians have the russian military has responded with concern that this is just a pretext to leave u.s. forces on the ground in syria even after the operation even after the victory over i saw it will be really interesting to see how all of this unfolds especially. he with the u.s. state secretary still is in the meeting of the russian top diplomat sergey lavrov. to discuss the situation in syria where now joined to live by daniel pipes founder and president of middle east forum thanks for being with us here on our team international. is so interesting situation here trump says that it was the u.s. led coalition which toppled isis but at the same time the pentagon says that they will keep the troops in syria as long as they need so what is the point of that if isis is no longer a force in syria. while there are many problems in syria not just isis let's assume for the moment that isis is finished just to give a little more mopping up but there are still so many problems in the country somebody's wife still things. i think it's wise to keep some presence there. you bring up a

not seeing russians play, not hearing the russian anthem, it is a disaster. peter: how are russians likely to respond in sporting terms? daria: i have been observing reactions over the last couple of days. i could say the reactions are very different. the russiansying should go anyway. i personally am on that side of well. when t the athletes, it is something they have been preparing for their whole lives. it could be the pinnacle of their career for many of them. they deserve to go if they can prove they can are clean, and i do not see why they should miss out on any of it, but quite a lot of people are saying that the athletes going anyway despite the ban on the russian team would be tantamount to national treachery. that is something that as a russian journalist you hear a lot. people somehow tend to associate the country, the state, and the name of vladimir putin together. if you do something which is not on the general line, you're supposed to be a traitor. athletes deciding to go and compete in the olympics just because of their ambition, not representi

russian paralympic athletes are the final decision on the russian paralympic sportsman will be announced in january the russian president daniel recently said that doing a blanket ban doesn't make any sense a it's not fair but b. if there is an individual or a few people who have broken the rules who are doping then hold those people to account but doing a blanket ban across the entire team is you know we're talking about athletes who have trained not just all year but some of these athletes have been training most of their lives their careers in sports how many hopes and dreams have just been dashed by the news that was just posted online today that's right maureen we interviewed many of those paralympic athletes last year last summer when you remember when they were suspended from rio. very short notice the taste and the heartbreak the disappointment was was evidence in in many of those quite emotional interviews that we did perhaps we can show some of them a little later but just going back to the fundamental crux of this year already which is dealing with doping. i mean. all those th

thousands of russian athletes working and training and dreaming about going to the olympic games and through the decision the i.o.c. has taken there is now an opportunity for that to happen for those individuals. well but those individuals will not be gratified by seeing that country's flag go by hearing that country's national anthem and it is their country that has invested lots of resources into training again they have done nothing wrong and it is not only those athletes but also millions of fans who will be watching the olympics don't you think that they have been penalized unfairly while i think the enforcement of the charter of the olympic charter by the i.o.c. against this its member is a very legitimate and responsible thing to do and the consequence of the rules that they agreed to participate by and and in force in russia as the russian olympic committee the consequence of that has repercussions i think the i.o.c. has created a really good way to demonstrate that doping and cheating at the olympic games won't be tolerated yet they've they've not taken a collective view aga

the novembere of 7, 1917 russian revolution, about 2.5 million russians had been killed in the great war and some 6 million had been wounded are taken prisoner. up next on american history tv, russian history professor olga porshneva discusses how the russian soldiers believed and their attitudes towards the war and how it contributed to their unrest and the revolution and birth of the soviet union. was hosted by the kansas city war museum. it was part of a two-day symposium on the war. olga porshneva is a professor of russian history at the university in russia. she has given -- she has been given the highest distinction in russia of the best doctoral thesis in the field of russian history in 2000. she is the author of more than 250 published monographs and articles. is a memberrshneva of the russian association for the first world war studies and the expert toward for history of the highest committee of the ministry for education and science of the russian federation. tooke so grateful that she through istanbul to be here. and also, we are so grateful for our partnerships with the

why have the russians built this wall? why are all people denied the right guaranteed them under the international agreements to pass freely from zone to zone within berlin? the communist explanation is simplicity itself. according to them, west berlin was a base for intrigue and imperialist assaults on east berlin and east germany where a man has a chance to enjoy the finer things in life. but things were going the other way, east to west, and so has every other casualty at the wall. no one can be sure of the real reason, but prior to the erection of the wall, almost anyone who could get into east germany could reach west berlin if his feet held out. and many did. once in west berlin, you are outside the iron curtain. the free passage of people between east and west berlin was the only physical gap in the iron curtain. so the russians sealed it. the wall is a solid fact. and the wall remains. it stands in berlin today. it stands and will stand wherever the road of world communism leads. some day, according to its builders

planes intercepted russian planes putin's envoy also for syria that they called on the u.s. to leave the country are we going to see more tension between those two powers. in syria when it comes to syria face well more tension is likely we were on the bring or the nod around of tension several months ago or not not not even several months ago just about one and a half months ago when there was intensive fighting in their own sword but the problem was not about their own it was about the oil field or fields that are situated in to the east of there us or so there is clear competition between the government in damascus and the syrian democratic forces which are mostly made of so where does that leave the prospects for peace in syria in two thousand and eighteen then the well the process well there we have very contradiction contradicting trounce on the one hand we still hope to have a new round of negotiations leading us to geneva and probably a peace agreement because we have with leader russia at least she used some understanding with the saudis we have an understanding with

army russian ideology and the russian world. me. most belarussians still accept the monopoly of their russian neighbors and of left to walk a fine line between solidarity and independence. but georgia was a different case. after the rose revolution it quickly developed into a pluralistic comparatively well functioning country. the tax system was simplified and the banking sector and public services modernized its cities were transformed. mikhail saakashvili the new president completely renovated the center of tbilisi. will decide that it will soon go after the rez revolution of foreign capital began to flow into the country it felt like a new era was coming people had a great visions that our country would become a new switzerland or singapore or that an economic miracle would happen. and a big boom really did start things that were worth a million dollars now cost one hundred million apartments in tbilisi were more expensive than in moscow we had an enormous growth in our client base and hired new stuff and really good money. l

and the russians have the russian military has responded with concern that this is just a pretext to leave u.s. forces on the ground in syria even after the operation even after the victory over i saw it will be really interesting to see how all of this unfold especially with the u.s. state secretary rex tillerson the meeting of the russian top diplomat sergey lavrov on thursday in vienna. ivan eland a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty gave us his thoughts on what is next for syria following eisel defeat there is always a question of who is going to you know occupy the lands that i saw that are had had occupied before after they were defeated and i think the u.s. always has trouble leaving theaters of war and you see troops still in korea you know almost seventy years after the war ended there and we see troops still in europe after the cold war is over so i think i predicted that they put us would probably stay around in syria with the help of the kurds of course and so they don't want to give the that that territory back to assad the assad. regime in syr

bank with close ties to russian intelligence. when it came time for the bank to staff up the office in moscow, one of the people they installed was andre costen's son also handedly named andre costen. soon as docdocumented, the spect turned on. billions of dollars in elicit russian money started getting flowing through the office and spirited out of russia through the office and this multi billion-dollar criminal scheme they were operating. the bank ran that keep using the offices in the west, as well. but that whole thing happened, they did that because they could thanks apparently to their connections to the russian government and intelligence services close to putin. they did it because they could. the bank did it because they got paid, right? they got a cut. you're moving multiple billions of elicit dollars? yeah, you're taking a cut. that moscow office of deutche bank started clearing profits of a half billion to a billion dollars a year in profit. that one office. thanks in large part to that very friendly relationship link

we've made tremendous progress uncovering the facts of russian interference in our elections. archimedes work helped expose the dark underbelly of disinformation -- our committees -- on many social media platforms. we've successfully pressed with a full accounting of russian cyber efforts to target our state electoral systems. and despite the initial denials of any russian contact during the election, this committees efforts have helped uncover numerous and troubling high-level engagements between the trump campaign and russian affiliates, many of which have only been revealed in recent months. we've got a lot of work to do yet. our committee has gone out of its way to ensure continued bipartisan backing for this effort. and i'm committed to seeing thet effort through. however, it should be c very clr that our committee cannot and will not stand as a substitute for mr. mueller's investigation. as chairman burr and i've noted on many occasions, the fbi is responsible foror determining ay criminal activities related to this inquiry. as such, mohler has only moved to indict to in

you mentioned russian team and. olympic team is in a limbo because russians can't participate in the winter olympics under their own flag they will have to compete as squared of. athletes plus we have the absence of n.h.l. how do you think that will affect the whole tournaments that's not something new for the olympics absence of the n.h.l. now the russian team competing on the national flag. i think that. there has been so much talk already but the by the time the. tribes afrique we all forget that i hopefully we can focus in the tournament on the games and i know that you know it's been a tough year for hockey. and it still is not. coming and that the russians. tough time for the tourist course you know. for their hockey but i think that both with time will heal on the. other no less than sixty days to go for this going to be where you know we could really focus in the city so you're saying the ant absence of n.h.l. this strange situation with russian hockey players competing under national flak is not going to af

by the russian sports. so. just as a human being and as a hockey player i'm going to ask you questions and i just want your personal opinion on this then know that hockey players the russian hockey players have all passed the doping test and the witness there says that the hockey players weren't part of the doping scandal anyway why force them to wear neutral colors i mean can they just if they're not part of the doping scandal can they just where their national. sports wear and compete on their own flag. well i hope the good but. i think this is a good story why why this has happened in the i.o.c. . has done the a lot of work and study through the sheet to ation. how much joy for the right person told well i know enough to say. you know they say it's been tough time for them the russian sports five million of the hockey you are stupid. if it was strong but to just it's not one thing that we do go that way. because emotionally russians are very split about this most of the athletes say they going to go to the o

adoption of russian children. these e-mails create many hard questions about whether those two explanations stand up. one, people involved in these meetings did have follow up. they discussed what was discussed in that meeting. there were ideas back and forth exchanged via e-mail but it also raises questions about what topics actually came up between those russians promising damaging information on hillary clinton and senior members of the trump team. i'm going to give you an example. june 14th, 2016, this is five days after the trump tower meeting. the person who brokered this meeting, rob goldstein, a publicist, e-mails one of the russians and this is on the day that news breaks that russia has hacked into dnc e-mails. he copies and isn't this, quote, e eerily weird and one said it was an innocent explanation. because we did not discuss the dnc breach in that meeting in trump tower, that's the reason that it was weird that five days later the story broke that, in fact, russia broke the dnc. whether you believe t

have you heard about the russian doping scandal no i haven't heard. i don't know about is this a repeat yeah yeah i've never heard this i don't the lack of any stuff but i. heard he used some medicine. and her face i don't know that it's true needs to be seen. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit more i says to stronger country. but i. feel people everybody is like a. national soccer game spain the england it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't even see right there so i think it's unfair on the. dates as well this is going to be productive the winter olympics but you know russia is not a whole country that's so few political stuff. and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics that will happen without team russia. i will continue discussing the future of russian olympics after a short break you are watching r t international. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the decision to pull on. the only sh

athletes to me the russian my soccer team to play they need to. contact a hockey league to release their players because if they don't the russian the winter olympics loses lose it's cash cow and that's been the biggest problem is because when they split the two olympics this summer i'm going every two years it's been a disaster and revenues have fallen and people have been not watching numbers that they should be so they have forged they have forged this removal state sponsor which i know is a pair of money money people and something that i detested from the start. the very key not to blame people at the top of it don't want to bring people in the kremlin now they have made a scapegoat in the tally more to go that was always going to come down. you know even dan it makes no sense. it's you're buying him to say all the credit weren't involved in this whole world of sports ministry were involved in they weren't involved they've been very political with their language but the i.o.c. needs russia more than russia in this moment if they need russia wh

have you heard about the russian don't. know i haven't heard. i don't know about is this a repeat yeah yeah i've never heard this on anything but i. heard he used the medicine. and her face i don't know that each kind of you will see. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit or so the strongest country. by. people everybody is like. you international soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't even see right there. i think it's unfair. that just well this is on the for the winter olympics but you know russia. than a whole country that's so few political stuff. in the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first winter olympics that could happen without team russia well it will become a lot clearer when that decision is known and a few hours from now we're keeping close watch on the i.o.c. headquarters for when it is announced will be live in listen to what fate awaits russians winter olympians. the german forei

about the risks posed by a widely used russian company, kaspersky lab. our mission has always been to protect the big and the small... kaspersky lab provides security products designed to protect systems from criminals and hackers. it's used by consumers, and also businesses, and some parts of government. we keep the secrets of global significance... for a system like kaspersky to work, this software requires access to almost all the files on someone's computer, phone or network, to scan for viruses. and the software may also need to communicate back to the company's headquarters in moscow. the fear is that this could be used by the russian state for espionage, stealing secrets. here at britain's national cyber security centre, they say they've not seen actual proof of such espionage, but they believe there is an increased risk. and so today, they've told government departments not to use kaspersky for systems containing sensitive data. this is specifically about entities that may be of interest to the russian government. and so that, for us, is about na

russian interference in the elections in. germany. from. america but as i say there is new evidence of any successful russian interference. in the u.k. other highlights of the press conference included boris johnson speaking russian a few times saying that he has committed to fall in response to another question by me the u.k. foreign secretary confirmed that once he was in tehran a couple of weeks ago he visited the russian embassy secretly to see the venue of the famous tehran conference during the second world war he was also asked about moscow travel advice that he received from one of the british m.p.'s which included warnings about drinking challenge again. and honey traps many other things so the question was about trust and the question was about whether he had encountered any of these threats so far in the russian capital. but i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. soon as i got into this exit from a loose try mediately handed my coat my hand my gloves and indeed everything that was in my pocket secret or otherwise to

have you heard about the russian doping scandal no i haven't heard. i don't know about is this a repeat yes i. have never heard this film about any school but. i heard the news that just. her face i don't know that it's true needs to be seen. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit boring i says to the strongest country. by. people everybody is like a. beautiful national soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't get into the right as i think it's unfair for you to have any doubts as well this is on the people not the winter olympics but you know russia we've got a whole country that's so you live the good stuff. and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics that will. without team russia or back to our continuing coverage of the international olympic committee decision to ban russia's team and many individual russian athletes from taking part in the two thousand and eighteen winter game

of prisoners later today this off the top two days ago in moscow mediated by the head of the russian orthodox church kiev's representative at the talks said ukraine will be released three hundred six prisoners and expects the separatists to release seventy four of its captives in return. ordinary people on either side of the front line the conflict has meant sacrifice on a daily basis a russian backed separatist insurgency erupted back in twenty fourteen leaving more than ten thousand people dead so far the pros in fighting gives these people in the donetsk time to repair their homes as best they can without enough glass available people are living with plastic sheets whether windows used to be there how use a freezing cold. one of the there was a cease fire at the beginning of the school year and another one now but we still get shells coming over it's happened seven times in our neighborhood. the winter weather has exacerbated an already die a situation waterpipe to frozen and there is no heating local residents have come up with stopgap solutions for the cold nights the cool i fil

this is the capital of the russian far east. here, china is closer than russia, the cradle of the revolution seems a world away but then i am more than 4000 kilometres east of saint petersburg. lee f leef— lee f — liev this year, he and the revolution have one thing in common, they are both 100 years old, born in 1970 and liev has survived three famines, fought in four wars. in his lifetime, this country has disappeared. twice. first czarist russia and then soviet russia. how does a nation survive that kind of sincerely? after the revolution, it would take five years and a brutal civil war before the bolsheviks conquered the russian far east. the decisive battle was near khabarovsk, there is a giant painting of the battle, soviet mythology painted the reads as he rose, the anti—communist army decisively crushed. in songs and poems, in paintings and propaganda, the message was clear. the reds were on the right side of history. but this vision of history is crumbling just like the battle side of the memorial to the heroes in

flag or here the russian or where russian uniform all of which are seen as obviously traditionally quite important aspects of the olympic games for any athlete from any country so russian that are deemed clean will be able to partake in the upcoming games in chang however as you said they will be titles olympic athletes from russia they will hear the olympics. and will have to. participate under the olympic flag certainly something that's seen as quite upsetting for those athletes that are going to be participating as i said now this is not just the only measure that's been implemented here in the us and today we also know that any official from the russian ministry of sports will not be accredited for the upcoming games we know that the then minister of sports back at the time of the olympics of twenty fourteen as well as his deputy are banned from any participation in all future olympic games the russian olympic. committee president alexander superfit is suspended as an i.o.c. member and also the international olympic committee here has decided to put a ban hefty fine on russia of fift

no russian flag will fly at the twenty year winter olympics but there will be russian athletes. new russian national anthem will play out during official ceremonies but founds will probably acappella rendition you can take the athletes out of the country but can you take the country out of the athletes. so there is no the all important as a person but he is important as far as is leaving would cause a risk in the regime falling apart so indeed the americans are americans so much less to have him leave the old oil from time to time they keep saying at the so. in the end i think most countries are accepting that he will stay. this week the russian military announced syria would be completely liberated from islamic states but it was no particular area is now held by the jihad this there are still small pockets of resistance the russian operation in syria began september two thousand and fifteen when. the country than any other faction and u.s. led coalition so also been involved in the northeastern part of the country in the area west of the refrain now liberated eisel self. procla

so it was a nice surprise for russian people and i'm surprised the russian norman but as i started to i'm not surprised but fulfilling these goals by any means before we continue the conversation and let's just take a closer look at what is. the allegations of state backed doping amounts to. the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi russia the host nation won thirty three medals more than any other country russia and president vladimir putin came off looking like champions but did they play fair or were the real champions that doping laps. two years after the games had investigator for the world anti-doping agency richard mclaren published some serious allegations that the moscow laboratory operated for the protection of doped russian athletes within a state directed feel safe system the russian ministry of sport directed controlled and oversaw the manipulation of athletes and little results no less than the head of russia's own anti-doping lab grigori wrote chunk of was chief witness he left for the united states as did you yesterday part of a runner who had reported systematic do

news live from berlin tonight the words russian athletes were dreading. the russian olympic committee is a suspended who is immediately sick olympic jeeves and banned russia from the upcoming winter games over state sponsored doping clean athletes will only be allowed to compete as a neutral site also coming up a move that endangers the entire middle east peace process u.s. president on the drug tells palestinian president mahmoud abbas he intends to move the u.s. embassy in israel to jerusalem palestinian groups are calling for a day of rage in protest we'll get the latest from jerusalem and police in kiev arrest former georgian leader me cows feel it but are forced to free him by angry supporters we'll have an exclusive interview with the man who escaped the police. by bringing off it's good to have you with us the international olympic committee has banned russia from competing in the twenty eighteen winter olympics some clean athletes will be able to compete as neutrals but under strict conditions with just ten weeks before the games begin in south ko

what we didn't find out here was anything at all about russian collusion. in fact, they're not talking about anything that happened before haeelection day. help me tell you something. if you put% kt mcfarland out there, she's as hoyle as anyone else. >> what might this mean for kushner or is michael right the crime here is just lying to the fbi? others speculate and they're trying to get flynn to flip for a bigger fish? >> this is the a lot of republicans saying -- donald trump called on russia to hack into hillary's e-mail. made a big deal about wikileaks. jared kushner tried to set up a back channel. this is the a huge time hein. we have to get out of the pos and revisit what the big question is here, and it's -- the stakes are really high. did a u.s. president compromise national security interests to get assistance from a russian foreign agent to get help. if that's true, what will he be willing to do to stay president? this is where we have to hook at congress and start asking congress if this is the any attempt to impede this investigation, will they

all you'll see need do the games to go ahead they need russian athletes to me the russian most hockey team to play the need to. contact a hockey league to release their players because they don't the russian the winter olympics loses loses cash and that's been the biggest problem is because when we split the two olympics this summer i'm going every two years it's been a disaster and revenues have for them and people have been not watching numbers of it should be so. they have to this removal state sponsors which i know is of money money people and something that i detest from the start. very keen not to blame people at the top of that you know if they don't want to bring people in the kremlin know they have made a scapegoat in italy won't go that was always going to come down. even and it makes no sense you're buying him to see all the credit more involved in this world of sports ministry were involved in they weren't involved have been very political with their language but the i.o.c. needs russia more than. this moment so recap them russia has been banned from the twenty eighteen wi

russian the romany's. a line to the right for us this week the russian military to cloth eastern part of the country with on saturday. this is the airbase in life from which russian jets are launching their sorties against this law makes the targets here in syria whether it's. dinner time the pilots are ready to go it's a moment's notice. in this amphitheater laid down by the romans almost two thousand years ago that isis staged one of its sickest massacres the russian military considers it the crown in jewel of their operation here in syria. you can see here. just some of the impressive military hardware that isis have in that possession that has made the battle for palmira so tough we're extremely close to isis positions less than two kilometers away in. the burbs a syrian artillery position overlooking the industrial corridor of their resort the battle is said to be fear isis fired back as we filmed shells began falling all around. we ran but the syrian batteries kept firing life indeed is or is still f

yeah so russian t.v. had announced before that that they would do that if the russian team were banned and it seems they have now widened to the neutral flag situation that we now have as well and of course ahead of this decision various officials had said that that the russian athletes competing under a neutral fly wouldn't really be an option or at least it's one that they condemned for example if you tell you who was sort of mentioned in the report just now he said that that would not be an option even though he said that it would be up to each individual athlete to decide whether they want to compete under a neutral flag the question of course is if they do go whether that will be seen as a very unpatriotic move you know even putin said that it would be a humiliation to compete under a neutral flag so of course the signals from up high say that they probably shouldn't go and there is the option that perhaps there would be an overall boycott and that no one no russian officials and no athletes would go

we care about how the russians can eat until they. both just come back into that to return to our breaking news which we probably just a few minutes ago here on r.t. international the president putin has officially declared his intention to run in next year's presidential election in russia the announcement came at a meeting with workers at a russian car factory celebrating eighty five years of production you can see in the video behind me this is what he was telling of workers. earlier on wednesday he was asked at a volunteer forum in moscow about his intention to run and twenty eighteen now add that form as a packed arena he didn't give a direct answer but instead said that the decision would be announced soon let's listen in the way you treat our homeland we know the facts of our history when. the people were starting to. get to the fight back against intervention and here during the very historic dark time of our country it is up to. those events that it was. long after that during the great patriotic war. it was here that these s

with flynn planning to cooperate with the name in this game of political russian roulette this is inside story. alone welcome to the program i'm peter dopy now the president of the united states has been dragged into the investigation looking for answers about suspected russian meddling in last year's u.s. election his former national security adviser michael flynn is guilty he's admitted it he lied but the main question now is how far up the political food chain will robert muller's inquiry reach so much to talk about here but first as fintan monaghan explains this may yet be a turning point. was general michael flynn was a very visible part of trump's campaign for president one of his earliest and closest advisors his job was often to go after hillary clinton. was by her that's right. that chant came back to haunt him on friday. was his guilty plea will make it that much harder for the white house to downplay the investigation the f.b.i. now admits is looking into potential coup luzhin between russia and the trump campaign which the president has called a witch hunt and i think most of

have you heard about the russian doping scandal no i haven't heard. i don't know about is this a repeat yeah yeah i've never heard this on the on the lack of any stripe but i. i heard to use some medicine yeah her face i don't know that it's from each kind of you just. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. is there a bit boring a little bit boring i was just the strongest country. but i. feel people everybody is like. the international soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and you don't get into the right. i think it's unfair on the f.e.c. you haven't they just well they should on the people not the winter olympics but you know russia. than a whole country that's so few political stuff a million trying to go and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first winter olympics that could happen without team russia. and we'll know in the next few hours whether that's going to be the case that meeting happening like i said right now in switzerla

so we area and the russian ambassador. so we are a long way from talking about something that can bring down donald trump but the wagons are circling all the more about the white house. thank you. millions of people download anti—virus software onto their computers every year to try to protect themselves from hackers and cybercrime. but now the government is warning that using russian software could be a risk to national security. one of the most popular anti—virus products is made by a russian company called kaspersky. but the company's boss has told the bbc there is no evidence they are involved in spying. here's our security correspondent, gordon corera. fears of russian cyber—espionage have been growing and, tonight, the government issues a new warning about the risks posed by a widely used russian company. our mission has always been to protect the big and the small... kaspersky lab provide security products designed to protect systems from criminals and hackers. it's used by consumers, and also businesses, and

no russian flag will fly at the twenty year winter olympics but there will be russian athletes. the russian national anthem will play out during official ceremonies but fans will probably acappella rendition you can take the athletes out of the country but can you take the country out of the athletes. back this week the russian military announced syria had been completely liberated from islamic states but it wasn't that no particular area is now held by the jihadists but there are still small pockets of resistance the russian operation in syria began in september two thousand and fifteen when i saw more territory in the country than any other faction the u.s. led coalition's also been involved in the northeastern part of the country the area west of the euphrates river now liberated self-proclaimed caliphate effectively no longer exists today the iraqi government also declared it had fully rid the country of islamic state during the russian operation in syria correspondents were given direct access to the conflict. this is the air base. from which russian jets launching. against

the russian british chamber of commerce and the russian federation of trade representative to britain tons of mainstream media horror stories about moscow's expertise in i.t.v. into a bid for economic partnership in finn's act all this and more coming up in part two of this special russia u.k. trade ties edition i'm going underground. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport that's less i'm show business i'll see you than. there is no center in the united states' political discourse it's all center right ever since the clinton people came into power the center right has become the right and there is no peace party that exists in my country and i don't see any evidence of it except this third party that is so criticized the green party. welcome back we're still of the russian british business forum twenty seventeen of the queen elizabeth the second center in westminster and joining me now is the chair of the board of directors of the russian british chambers of commerce roger weddings thanks so much for coming to our ma