ambassador to russia and nato, a russian journalist, and russia's first foreign minister. ais is about an hour and half. john: good morning. my name is john herbst. i run the eurasian center here at the atlantic council. thank you all for coming. we have a wonderful program for you this morning. and i should mention that this is part of our series on internal developments in russia. we began with a session in october on demography in russia. and this of course is on politics. next month, we are doing a session on the russian economy, followed by a session a session probably in april on energy sector in russia. we have a real treat for you this morning. we have a wonderful line of speakers. i will not describe them except to say yevgenia albats, a top-notch journalist from moscow, who has written a very provocative and a fascinating paper on russia politically. foreign minister kozyrev will comment on that, as will eugene rumer from carnegie. and ambassador and former deputy secretary nato, sandy vershbow will bat cleanup for us this morning. and with that i will turn it ov

bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what we're being told about. i want to go and i want to see what it's like and my process of disenchantment from the western propaganda machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest thousand and fourteen with the events new crime and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. you mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country it's a very complex society it's sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism and loving russia is it's a bit like caring for the disabled loved one you know the disability you hate them but you love the person all the more because of that and that is actually i think the most moving part of your book for me that you accept disability rather than the typical western scolding that russia is not good enough but w

from us the position of russia is getting more so truong saw i think that russia in syria is not only. allowing could serve return to at the same time it creates problems between turkey and nato and the united states are right up made and just wondering what turkey's response is going to be we had the prime minister saying that y.p. g. forces will pay twice as much i'm just wondering what it is that turkey will do in response and how the kurds feel considering that they basically lost an ally in russia have they. well first of all i have to say this about the day after the day everybody was speaking about after the dash defeat what was going to happen and now it is the moment of the truth everybody speaking about his own political interest with or the superpowers like the united states they're going to reword the y.p. for their efforts in the in the fight against and now it's really the russians who are interested in their military base in me me me in the south in lattakia and other provinces so their major threat for the russian is the edge the as they hate to hear the sham that that

let's start with russia and russia's attack on our elections. jeff, sarah sanders once again dismissing the information and falsely claiming that the president never questioned whether the russians meddled is false. >> she did, brooke. it's clear that the press secretary has spoken out stronger and more forcefully russia than the president ever has to date. she said it's very clear that russia meddled in the election. he, in fact, has not said that. the whole underlying issue here, she went on to say it's also clear it didn't have an impact on the election. >> his by being afraid to talk about it, they've gotten themselves in quite a fix. you can see sarah sand hers no answers for the tweets over the weekend. i was in florida covering the president. they were stunned to see these tweets in real-time, the same time we were. so he simply was not previewing them with the white house staff. now she is trying to come up with an answer and trying to explain something that has already happened in the tweets. going on, i thought perhaps the most importa

president will you punish russia? will you punish russia? >> will you put sanctions on russia? nothing on russia, mr. president? >> join us for tea? >> joining our discussion jill wine-banks, ari melber, and ben wittes. >> ari, i know you have been studying this indictment and talking about it a great deal on the network today, including talking about it while studying it. as it stands tonight, now that you've had a little bit of time to breathe and digest it, give us your -- frame the significance of this indictment for us. >> you're right, lawrence. i'm happier to do it here with you live on the last word because i don't have to talk while reading it, which is happening in the news room with breaking news. this is a turning point, february 16, 2018 is a day in american history, a day where donald trump ate his own words and had to cough up an admission that no fact checker could get him to do but bob mueller made him do, which was what was known and wildly reported but now a legal fact that russia did interfere in our elections. the take away i have from reading this indictme

russia among other issues like what he referred to as the irrational rhetoric for russia rising and involvement in other countries' affairs. basically what we listened to was a sharp rebuke of the e.u. from the russian foreign minister sergei love saying that the europeans don't seem to be learning from the past saying that's one of the russia has been able to deliver all the promises he made to korea after the end of the cold war. the europeans are still has done thing the russians in a negative manner he says of the same time i was seeing these that need to continues to expand east the americas us to push in with the system defense system in places like poland which the russians have been saying in the past could trigger a major military confrontation and therefore he says that the only way is for the russians and the europeans to come together and try to negotiate a new path where they can consolidate economic and political agreements but how to say that this is not what you officials were expecting to hear today from so again there were particular waiting to hear from him some reassurance t

and the other by russia of a u.k. draft resolution called for quote additional measures against iran over accusations that it violated an arms embargo now this came after u.n. experts said in january that iranian military equipment was brought in to yemen after the arms embargo was imposed but also stated that they were unable to verify the supplier and russia's draft resolution called for the renewal of sanctions until february twenty nine hundred but did not mention iran the russian ambassador called for political dialogue and expressed the need for the u.n. to come closer he also explained the reasoning behind the veto let's take a quick look i will be frank the wording advanced in the british draft is liable to have dangerous destabilizing ramifications and this is not only applicable to the situation in yemen but also to the region overall this will inevitably escalate regional tensions and lead to conflict among key regional players instead of antagonizing relations in the middle east what we need are measures t

walls so russia russia is better situated than others. in a success if we if we take the whole world that's even worse because. countries which russia sees. friendly china which is too much friendly but but it doesn't mean the china is really due to. compromise in the. midst of a caravan and it's essentially a. either one somebody in forces his own vision on you or you try to work out something. could benefit both sides obviously the second one is far more laborious and no successes. guaranteed but i think what what is really important to mr putin at least is the principle because if you're used to first option it's not only unfair i think in the russian world view but it is also highly detrimental because it simply increases the discount for potential mistakes absolutely first off and is not an option for russia these only existing two to take it wasn't down to ninety nine to just to make russia part of somebody else's construction which didn't work and it could not work it was very i don't know naive to believe. but i think that the rus

russia. >> we have a topnotch journalist from moscow, he's presented a and fascinating on russia politically. comment on that. former deputy secretary general will bat cleanup for us this morning and turn it over to the doctor. >> thank you very much. extend our to the re gratitude to ambassador, who invited me and to write a paper to center.cil and the thank you very much for coming for this event. persistence, of the he main topic paper that i wrote, and then we haveer, i argue that been witnessing the of the regime in ussia, which is now in istory -- italy, mussolini, and portugal. o be sure, there is no -- no conspiracy in the story that i'm outlining. that when guing has becomeimir putin the president of the russian confederation in 2000 he broke the whole range of people from his old job, the the years, in a first of eight years, eight years, they staffed all russian government to the apparatus of the government, the administration. result, by 2008, almost 67% of all positions in the to

interests of russia. so as long as america and the west tries to talk to russian diplomats, or whatever, political class, arguing for national interests of russia, of course it is contrary to russian national interests to fight with ukraine, who are our brothers. it is even farther from national interests to take a military adventure somewhere, nowhere in syria. where there are no interests for russia. so -- but the regime is different. the they started from last legislation, and the least however you the evaluate this, the least was published just few days, might be two days ago, one y ago, that is much more closer to addressing the regime and dealing with the regime. and finding yourself something bout strong and weak points in russia. yes. that's the achilles heel. of the regime. the rules,er the interests of this regime was -- simplistically. spent in the a, west. keeping russia people under k.g.b. legacy. so that they sit calm and keep them under propaganda. but spend in the west in democracy, in leg

in russia and what does it mean for the next olympics in the russian athletes i think as far as russia is concerned it's now business as usual day as well as the i.o.c. seem keen to draw a line under all of this reweave in sort of day president vladimir putin there is welcoming the russian athletes who took part so the kremlin presenting those who did win medals ordering them because i think as far as russia is concerned these are russian athletes that won those medals they were neutrals no matter what anyone else said forget the fine print and i think that's been the problem for those people who advocate things because for them the punishment was not hostile they wanted a complete ban a blanket ban of russian athletes and i think they'll be very disappointed that this reinstatement has come very very quickly and that's a good point jonathan green from our sports desk thank you you're welcome. the syrian government has stepped. on the rebel held eastern ghouta after a temporary truce ended earlier today russian president vladimir putin said that his troops had managed to evacuate some

should focus on peace efforts instead of criticizing russia but now it's russia bashing took another interesting turn when she mentioned chemical weapons saying that russia failed in destroying syria's chemical weapons but even though it was a russian initiative it wasn't russia's full responsibility to destroy syria's chemical weapons it was a u.n. led effort and the open sea w.b. organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which is the organization that was trying with the mission has confirmed multiple times that all of syria's chemical weapons have been destroyed however it didn't end there now or compare the current situation in eastern gooda to what happened in aleppo but we are watching what is going on and i spoke to this on thursday the horrific attacks taking place against civilians in eastern guta it is not too dissimilar from what happened last year in aleppo it is horrific now back in twenty sixteen the u.s. debt. the russian humanitarian corridors that were meant to save civilians they claimed it was a forced evacuation saying that people should have been able

, but we get that news from russia. and's happened again and again and again. this fall, when president trump took his big trip to asia, he raised some eyebrows when it emerged that he'd be meeting with president putin on the sidelines of that asian summit. the way we learned those meetings were going to happen during the asian summit is that a member of the kremlin staff made the announcement. and that's how u.s. news agencies learned about that. only afterwards did the white house admit, yes, the kremlin is correct, those meetings are going to happen. he met with putin three separate times on that asia trip. and then when he came back from asia, for some reason he had to meet with vladimir putin again. on november 21st, president trump had a one on one phone call with president putin. we learn thad ed that at 1:00 a when it was translated, from int interfax. and where interfax got this news was from the kremlin. and so that third hand is how we learn that important information about the american president that day. we

bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what we're being told about. i want to go and i want to see what it's like and my process of disenchantment from the western propaganda machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest thousand and fourteen with the events in ukraine and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. you mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country it's a very complex society it's sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism it's loving russia is it's a bit like caring for the disabled loved one you know the disability you hate them but you love the person all the more because of that and that is actually i think the most moving part of your book for me that you accept those disabilities rather than the typical western scolding that russia is not good en

so for russia, the outcome of the syrian civil war is as much about russia's internal security, as it is about the country's external security. (bells toll) (speculative music) - [narrator] policymakers disagree on whether to approach putin's russia with engagement or confrontation. - [polyakova] the american people, i think are rightfully quite confused about 'is putin a good guy?' 'is russia really that bad?' 'why should we care?' it's 'cause our political leaders have never clearly articulated what our stance is towards russia. - [w. bush] i found him to be very straight-forward and trustworthy. i was able to get a sense of his soul. - we want to reset our relationship as... - [male voice] let's do it together. - so we will do it together, okay? (both laugh) - russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. not out of strength, but out of weakness. - we look forward to a lot of very positive things happening for russia, for the united states and for everybody concerned. and it's an honor to be with you, thank you. thank you very much. - thanks. - the

they are foreign to russia's foreign partners still want to cooperate with russia so for example a french company recently brought cows into the country to produce cheap milk which was then used by those russian cheese producers so they have certainly found ways around the sanctions some cheese old people but very inventive ones as well thank you have really for your analysis. u.s. president donald trump has announced that taxes will be levied on companies from countries which imposed customs duties on u.s. products trump was unclear which countries would be affected by the levy but he stated that he will say more about the mutual tax this week also when else is four point four trillion dollar budget plan for the coming fiscal year and one of the half trillion dollar plan to modernize the ailing u.s. infrastructure that's a story only bunts is following for us in frank's talking about a huge cash injection here what traders saying about this all the. well it's of course the question whether it indeed will go through congress can quote troels the purse strings on the federal level but even

russia relations. i think a very important priority was to make sure the nuclear, chemical and biological weapons were safe and secure. there was a very important case of u.s. russian cooperation. nuclearram where weapons were withdrawn from the ukraine, kazakhstan, belarus, the united states really came through to help secure the weapons in russia. that program produced real cooperation, military to military, politician to politician. that cooperation pretty stories of success, friendship, and ability of these people to trust each other, connect with each other, and work in the future. there were other priorities. certainly, expanding nato was a big priority for the united states. a lot of time, i think in the u.s. public statements, also internally, they treated yeltsin's resistance to the idea of resistance as pr. when you look at yeltsin, he basically said in 1995, that for me to agree to the borders of nato expanding towards russia, betrayald constitute a on my part of the russian people. througho

condemning russia. adding they are laughing their asses off in moscow. he also said he did not ma, he . putin did not meddle in the election. and the obama administration could have done more. >> i have said all along i felt the obama administration should have done more. but none of that is an excuse for this president to sit on his hands. >> schiff challenging the president directly saying if mcmaster can stand up to putin, why can't you? insisting it proves there was no collusion between his campaign and russia despite the fact that mueller's investigation into potential collusion is ongoing. now, the president is heading back to washington to headlines from the l.a. times reporting that the former campaign aide rick gates is expect to testify against paul manafort and will plead guilty to fraud-related charges within days, dave and alisyn. >> let's bring in kara cordero and john avlon. over the weekend he had a dozen tweets. the one we should talk about this he said i never said russia did not middl

actually russia russia is just the more the talking the situation that that was said by. top or top leaders or what was said by the plus secretary of russian president vladimir putin we are monitoring the situation what is going on in these areas where there is the hostilities between the. detachments and talk asia. military men are below actually imagine though that russia is enjoying filling the vacuum left by the u.s. when it comes to turkey relations right i mean it's particularly strained at the moment the fact that the u.s. continues to support the group that turkey is fighting. well first of all the must understand the russian position very well the aim of russia is to put every inch of syria on the contours of the regime that is the that is the threat of russia to mean first of all russia asked her to leave the region and leave this situation to the point of all of our south asia that is very important point to be on the stand that the second point is that russia is where you will have a lot of the conflict. between turkey and. the united states turkey russia is h

the attacks on russia today with the attacks on russia as a whole as a. teen or you know china it is emphasizing it is insecurity that. its values or its point of view can be a challenge and this is whole thing about move to polarity that you and i can you know go to the t.v. screen or whatever go to any country and get the source for ourselves to know the news and then assess them according to our knowledge and intellectual abilities but america doesn't want that and it's you know it's funny. to me as a grotesque as a person who was brought up in poland. knowing radio free europe radio liberty was the radio that you know our my grandparents or my you know my my parents were listening you know with their friends in some places. far away from the by the communist island. that we have today i lived in poland in the one nine hundred eighty s. i remember all of that had to very very clearly. only remember that from from my view you know from my family's you know stories that you know they were gathering in some you know this place is going to be not all right

there is no trump-russia conclusion. the appearance did not impact the russia outcome. we have a report tonight come out byron york laying out why the media and democrats are over blowing what is muller's indictment. his analysis tonight will stun you. the russian spent as little more than three grand on facebook ads. hillary clinton wasn't even bothering to campaign in those states. this election meddling shouldn't be of surprise, which we will explain. it has been going on for decades. just as president barack obama. we have videos to show you. breaking news from attorney general jeff sessions. he is saying that the doj abuses and the bought and paid for dossier will be investigated finally. that's at tonight opening monologue. tonight we start with president barack obama ignoring a major warning in march 2014 that russia would try to interfere in the elections. what did obama do in 2016, 2015, 2014? did he even tried to stop it? absolutely not. just weeks before the election, listen to what then-president obama said. >> i have never seen in my lifetime or in modern p

but russia, russia has itself to lose. russia did not need somebody to lose it. now, coming back to the priorities. so the priority, priority was support for democratic development in russia. in fact, there were many priorities as always in u.s. russian relations, u.s. soviet union relations. i think a very big priority was to make sure the nuclear ch chemical and biological weapons were save and secure. there was the nonlou garr program where nuclear weapons were withdrawn from belarus, united states came through and securing chemical weapons, not biological in russia. and that program produced real cooperation. military to military, politicians to politician, that cooperation produced stories of success, friendships, and ability of these people to trust each other, connect with each other, and work in the future. there were other priorities. certainly expanding nato was a big priority for the united states. a lot of time i think in the u.s. public statements but also internally, they treated yeltsin's resistance to the idea of the expansion as just his pr. he n

russia that. the west when it criticizes russia is not big but they haven't. tried to undermine russian self-esteem and i think russia has learned that yes we have our own problems we have a dispute we have to deal with for example gender equality we have to deal with the way we treat option the. old the. particularly the way we treat homosexuals because i think for homosexuals there are still very biggest you should be playing russian and it shouldn't be that way but it's not my place and it's not the west good place to lecture russia about these things well i know you have very reluctant to criticize russia openly but you just mentioned this attitude towards the community and if you actually look at the polls you will see that russians by and large. homophobic they for example if you ask people do you mind homosexual couple living in the apartment next door to you they would usually say the majority would say no i don't care and yet in the political. environment these days you hear a lot about the traditional values the patriarchy and so on and so forth wher

it is not just to deter russia. it is to hold them accountable and so far donald trump is refusing to do that. >> back in december of 2016, then president-elect trump told "time" magazine, and i'm quoting him now, i don't believe they interfered, referring to the russians and the presidential elections. how do you believe the russians are interpreting the various mixed signals now coming from the trump administration and the white house, all coming and saying the russians are doing it, they've done and it they're still doing it. how do you think the russians interpret the mixed signals. >> every one knows they interfered except for the president. . for deterrence to work, it has to not only be credible but your adversary has to think you're willing to execute i. if the leader is unwilling to direct his fbi to very vent he another attack, it is very distressing. we need to make sure it doesn't happen again. congressman schiff has publicly said that president obama and his administration could have and should have don

in russia. absolutely i believe that. all this convict russia for interference based on. internal american polish because democrats lost their. electoral process and donald trump when it it was on the expected this step now is that a bit until now they cannot come down and they accept this. well done the drama as a president and responsibility should be. blazed on. the hands that russians are are here responsible for that i think that they lost because of different sayings it cost hillary clinton the years larry o'connor and. means for sure. electoral company and donald trump as as i refer at this article in bloomberg because it was work and it was internet all his money he poured upon it i'm going to stop you there because we have another discussion since we have done the discuss in detail and he has not we have done the discussion to death on this child hell as to why hillary clinton lost sean michael cox one point to you keeping it within the context of what we're discussing today for the white house is there a sense that mcmaster might be something of a loose cannon b

and he thinks this is unique in russia because of the power of the sport in russia. and he believes and i know that he believes because i seemed agony on his face as he describes this, that the sochi success that brought vladimir putin from epic low approval rating to incredibly high approval rating emboldened russia to invade the ukraine and annex crimea. easy writer is yvonne? i don't know. but what i do know is again doping is not a a long-term ga. it's a short-term gain. i just hope one of the powerful messages of the story, whether the doping is greater in the united states or it is occurring in in the western country or any other eastern bloc country, the day of reckoning is coming. >> thanks so much. we will take questions from the audience now. please wait until you see the mic and if you could state your name and organization. >> my name is david larkin, i'm a international sports and

because russia regards nuclear weapons as the battle. against inflation or war but this period covered it in the form of. hey everybody i'm stephen bob. hollywood. proud american interests george washington and r.v. . this is my buddy max the famous financial guru is a little bit different. with all the drama happening in our country i'm good to have some fun every day americans. and the stork to bridge the gap this is the great american. plane crash shortly but next around seven hundred fifty thousand children are struggling to get basic medical services in the war torn iraqi city of mosul that's according to the u.n. children's rights body unicef an estimated seventy four million dollars is needed to rebuild health facilities for children there seven months after the euphoria that greeted the liberation of mosul from islamic state that iraqi cities struggling to get back on its feet. but. there are other shargel for it. the number of. health care centers or hospitals is very limited the extent of the damage has affected it i was there

>> russia is a ruse. i have nothing to do with russia. the news is fake. i can handle a bad story better than anybody. i'm really not a bad person by the way. i do get great ratings, you have to admit that pip love to negotia -- i love to negotiate things and all that stuff. i won. i won. i'm having a good time. tomorrow they'll say donald trump rants and raves at the president. i'm not ranting and raving, i'm just telling you, you're dishonest people. >> the new president one year ago today, his last and only solo news conference in congress. thank you so very much for being here with us. have a good weekend and good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so i think the biggest thing that we learned today is that this guy has quite a lot of rabbits stuffed into that hat. it's always a surprise with the special counsel. on day one, not quite a surprise when the special counsel robert

i faced great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. >> the words leaving pressure i think are going to raise questions for investigators. >> thank you very much. >> the president has consistently said that he did not obstruct justice when the he fired james comey. >> the two men come from completely different worlds. >> james comey is a professional law man. he has a respect for the traditions of the justice department. >> it should be about the facts and the law. that's why i became fbi director >> donald trump, on the other hand, is a businessman. he expects absolutely loyalty from everybody working for him. that's the culture in which he has operated for many, many years. >> their relationship got off to a bad start. before the inauguration, james comey was in charge of telling donald trump about the dossier, the controversial document contained allegations an about the president gathered as part of an opposition research project during the campaign. >> i didn't want him thinking that i was briefing him on this to

they're actually just creating fake news about russia yeah i almost did that myself some euro. two thousand and sixteen it was of course as you said two thousand and six that remark was made at the offset thank you very much. for the story. u.s. tycoon george soros is pledging half a million pine's to an anti brags and campaign group and despite soros being accused of meddling in british politics the billionaire say's he is proud to back the calls i'm a proud supporter of best for britain a group that wants britain to remain a member of the european union i consider bricks at a tragic mistake of us initially invested four hundred thousand pounds in a campaign call of the best for britain in the hope of drumming up support for a second referendum on the u.k. status in the e.u. a wave of criticism followed but the investor responded by donating one hundred thousand pounds more we heard from you can dependents party m.e.p. who believes the those actions constitute meddling why is this man interference in my country in my democracy if he wants to be a part of our democracy he shoul

outside russia. the key to the soviet union -- the children of the nomenklatura -- i believe it can be a vehicle in bringing change and democratic development in russia. again, i will stop here. i would just like to briefly -- there is a book that i love very much, and i think that political scientist at large overlooked alexis deby tocqueville. it is called "the old regime and the french revolution." it talks about the problem of institutional persistence in other countries. i believe that tocqueville's study of the failure of the french revolution is applicable to the situation with the failure of the democratic revolution in russia. i am convinced that although they had no inkling of this, they took over from the old regime, not only most of its customs, conventions, but even those ideas which prompted our revolutionaries to destroy it. that in fact, although nothing was further from their intentions, they used of the debris from the old order to build up the new one." that is exactly what happene

the attacks on russia today with the attacks on russia as a whole as a. teen or you know china it is emphasizing it is insecurity that. its values or its point of view can be a challenge and this is whole thing about move to polarity that you and i can you know go to the t.v. screen or whatever go to any country and get the source for ourselves to know the news and then assess them according to our knowledge and intellectual abilities but america doesn't want that and it's you know it's funny. to me as a grotesque as a person who was brought up in poland. knowing radio free europe radio liberty was the radio that you know our grandparents or my you know my my parents were listening you know with their friends in some places. far away from not being used by the communists i mean and. i know we have to today i lived in poland in the one nine hundred eighty s. i remember all of that had a very very clearly. only remember that from from my view you know from my family's you know stories that you know they were gathering in some you know this place is going to

russia is. certainly one of the greatest states as it has the influence to either change the situation in syria and our hopes are that everyone will get back to the. table for negotiations and as soon as possible they will be filed in there to be serious. well that was a press conference a joint press conference being held between the russian president vladimir putin and also the austrian chances sébastien the first meeting between the two since because it was elected last year a lot of things discussed there including increased business links between the countries but of course the focus was on ukraine and syria as we heard at the end of that press conference will stick with syria because a humanitarian pause in syria in eastern guta has been broken by terrorists for a second day according to the syrian reconciliation center that after safety curry daughter established by russia came under heavy shelling from militants preventing civilians from leaving the besieged district a correspondent fro

as soon as you keep russia distanced, people in russia feel offended. they feel they are not part of the western world. but we are. let's be together in embracing those values. that's the best way to control the situation, the totalitarianism will never happen again in russia or in any other country. >> we will be watching the march 18 elections, and the run-up to them. thanks for joining us from washington tonight. >> thank you, thank you. >>> outspoken and passionate, the russian presidential candidate giving putin, she hopes, a run for his money. russia has also given the world some of the best poets and play wrights, so has america. my next guest, jeremy irons, is winning rave reviews for his portrayal of an actor in eugene o'neill's master spees, "long day's journey into night." he's been wowing audiences since 1981 with his breakthrough role in tv's "brides head revisited." more than 35 years later irons joined me here today to talk about what could be his last look at the foot lights. jeremy, welcome to the program. here you are playing james tyr

is news coming to you live from berlin the international olympic committee list since doping ban on russia move comes after the remaining tests of the country's athletes said the show in china winter olympics turned up negative so does this draw a line under moscow's massive state run doping scandal. also coming up on the program russian hackers or let's to attack germany's defense and foreign ministry is installing the packers are said to belong to the same group that attacked the democratic national committee ahead of the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election. and fears grow in germany over the welfare of the tens of thousands of homeless people forced to live outside as temperatures plunge to record low voice. hello i'm terry marchant good to have you with its the international olympic committee has confirmed to d.w. that russia's olympic ben has been lifted with quote immediate effect the news comes just two days after russian athletes returned from competing as neutrals at the john shank winter olympics in south korea two russian athletes failed drug tests at the games but the ban wa

. > will you put sanctions on russia? >> nothing on russia, mr. president? >> 13 russians indicted for election interference. >> mr. president, will you punish russia. >> robert mueller lays out a grand conspiracy of rush election sabotage. >> do you feel vindicated in the mueller investigation. >> what is in the indictment. >> russians recruited and paid real americans to engage in political activities. >> and why what's not in the indictment could mean big trouble for the president. >> no puppet no, puppet. you're the puppet. >> when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. robert mueller just revealed again we've only scratched the surface of what he and his team discovered about the 2016 election. he charged 13 russian nationals with interfering in the american american political process through what they caused information warfare. while various aspects have been reported by the press in dribs and drabs, the indictment lays out the full picture in extraordinary detail. it traces the different phases of the operation be

government has blamed russia for a large scale run somewhere which targeted a number of countries in june last year including russia but it seems the british foreign office minister who made the statement couldn't actually confirm that it was the doing of the law school the u.k.'s national cybersecurity center a sense is that the russian military was almost certainly responsible for the destructive not purchase cyber attack of june twenty seventh. well the model where behind the attack is called. the first reports on the cyber attack came from ukraine but spread quickly around the world it's believed that. at least two thousand organizations including transport systems banks hospital grants russia the u.k. the us germany and france were all it's. well to talk about these claims against russia we've album garri director at eurasia future and news media joining us on the program good to have you back russia was among those targeted so why does the u.k. think it would be behind the attack i'll just read out what was said the u.k. foreign office minister says london is almost sure it was

they're actually just creating fake news about russia. u.s. tycoon george soros is pledging.

bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what we're being told about. i want to go and i want to see what it's like and my process of disenchantment from the western propaganda machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest and fourteen with the events new crime and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. you mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country it's a very complex society it's sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism it's loving russia is it's a bit like caring for the disabled loved one you know the disability you hate them but you love the person all the more because of that and that is actually i think the most moving part of your book for me that you accept those disabilities rather than the typical western scolding that russia is not good enough but w

from russia from china. russia and. russia. to find sound outside the united states. and welcome back you're watching r t international live from moscow now russia has warned ukraine it is making a colossal mistake after kiev passed a law on the reintegration of the war torn down yet scandal guns regions moscow says it shows kiev is not committed to a peaceful solution to the conflict and that the move undermines the minsk agreements that are currently in place the new legislation allows the ukrainian president to use the armed forces in peace time against of the breakaway republics it also does against russia as an aggressor state and labels the two territories as being occupied in the conflict between eastern and western parts of ukraine broke out after a coup in two thousand and fourteen. here is how it all unraveled. the . for. you. experts we spoke to agree that the law will do more harm than good in east ukraine it won't contribute to the peace process it will have to be either withdrawn or amended in order to accord with the minsk agreements simple as that i th

russia do u.s. russia relations stand any chance honestly speaking or to they have to come back this is silly what's going on right now. i agree that the actions taken by the congress today and particular on the sanction list. made no real sense but i also observe they were not actually moving towards more aggressive actions to each other it's. i would like to see a much better relations and everything that the united states and russia are doing and i hope we can get to that point but in the meantime we should not be misinterpreting things like that so-called sanction that was really not sanctioned this was just a list of names i would also like to see statements made by our leaders both russian leaders down american leaders be more moderate and be focused more on the positive aspect to relationship but i do believe. we will get through this i think. we have a history of fars a relationship there's no reason why we can't get back to that relationship again in the many many reasons why we should not

today russia has belatedly decided to join the international consensus and accept the need to call for a ceasefire but only after trying every possible way to avoid it this far into the square with what is. pacemaking to go and they want to make sure that it is reflective of. russia is a staunch ally of syrian president bashar assad it's been providing military add to the syrian government. but while many have welcomed the news of a potential safe spot the people of syria continue to suffer. activists say minutes after the deal was struck government will planes bombed a student kuta yet again. well i'm joined by alan michael donald's in amman in the middle east folks and for save the children alan you are in close contact with people in eastern guta has there been any change following the security council votes so far at the moment people we've spoken to here said that it's really just an illusion. that this morning people who are looking forward to. peace will say they left the shelters where they've been hiding underground for the past week trying to escape bombing and people went to

>> russia is a ruse. this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story. >> the entire thing has been a witch hunt. >> the russia story say total fabrication. >> russia did not help me. okay? i call it the russian hoax. >> they made up the whole russia hoax. >> that was a democrat hoax. >> it's a democrat hoax. >> and as predicted we've got more tweets from president trump this morning, this was his latest, if it was the goal of russia to create discord, disruption and chaos within the u.s., then with all the committee hearings, investigations and party hatred they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. they are laughing their butts off in moscow. that's not what he tweeted but it's sunday i'm not going to say that word and he ended saying, get smart america. michael, it's welcome like he isn't the president of america. >> the two things that struck me from that tweet were what you just said. the end of that tweet sounds like he's sitting some where in trump tower before he became president cr