being russia. it is syria, ukraine, more ripal.erence, it is sk russians, individual russians, and firms. this perception in russia is that the sanctions are forever and there is not an exit path. believe that these new us to sanctions will not be lifted. the prussianeeping on by escalation is not a smart move and less you make it clear -- this is why keeping the pressure on by escalation is not a smart move. is,e russia approaches this they will keep up the pressure and we will counter with no pressure. there is no way out of this so why would we look for mechanisms? the challenge for me is that she sanctions -- is that sanctions are tools to shape and over arcing policy. we are starting to get tangled up in what we should accomplish. this is getting tangled up in other behavior, providing aid to the atoll a bond -- to the taliban or whatever. what is the overarching policy framework? , as useep applying them adjusted kurt, what is the policy framework -- as it used suggested kurt, what is the pol

russia and the e.u. the uncertainty about the changing political landscape makes investing and doing business in general increasingly difficult. german wholesaler metro has a big presence in russia but of late business has been flagging this week the company announced billions in losses attributed in part to a decline in consumer spending in russia fears over the state of the russian economy have left german businesses on edge. many european companies now find themselves stuck in the middle of a flurry of sanctions and counter sanctions there are some u.s. sanctions on russia that european companies have to comply with in order to keep doing business in the u.s. but the same firms could also face repercussions from russia for complying and other thawing of what some see as a simmering global trade war. let's discuss this global trade war that's looming with this ocean of german chances of commerce and industry. things for joining us let's talk about western companies in russia one concern for them is the

in the beginning of 2012, russia reached pre-2008 level so russia fell down by 10%. in 2008. and it took three years to recover. so the russian economy before crisis, before sanctions, were not in good shape. and they said very well about targets, the administration in the west, i will say none of those targets were reached. maybe one. that was reached. that was reached. because i believe looking backward, we have to say there was not any significant pressure on russia. and what president obama called for was not reached. we know about the financial turmoil in december, 2013. ussia rubles was 70 rubles per dollar, but it was combined with the decline in the oil price, combined with the mistakes of the central banks. altogether, this led to a collapse in the exchange rate of the ruble but maybe february, 2013, the market stabilized and they declined in 2015 when the russian economy declined by 2.5%. it's much smaller than the crisis of 2008. was mainly by the low of oil prices. so in the beginning of 2015, maybe in the first half, there was a different assessment or the impact

what do we mean when we say russia wants this or russia wants that. i think we've got a great group today to talk about that. i will introduce each of them sequentially as they speak. we will start with peter and then will go to my far left and my colleague george will wrap up. peter clement, to my right, is a senior research fellow and an adjunct perfec professor at columbia university at the school of international and public affairs. he last was at the cia several months ago after a career on the analytical side of the agency as director of the office of eurasian programs and analytic programs in a number of key posts. he is a longtime russia watcher and were very pleased he could be with us today. >> thank you so much. >> let's start with you. i would ask each of you to try to limit it to ten minutes. we have a big group. i'm sure we will have a lot of questions and discussion. >> thank you for having me. it's always a pleasure to see a lot of old friends and colleagues both from the intelligence community, from the thing tank world and other agen

ambassador to russia. currently a professor of political science at stanford university and author of "from cold war to hot peace, an american ambassador in putin's russia." taking your calls. steve is waiting in milwaukee, wisconsin on the independent line. steve, go ahead. steve, are you with us? [ inaudible ] we'll go to fran from jacksonville, florida, line for democrats. >> caller: yes, john. i heard a story in the last few months about some russians that had been expelled or not allowed in the u.s. coming in, you know, like one night, more than one of them, meeting with some trump administration people, and i wanted to know if mr. mcfaul knew anything about that, how these people got in, and what were they here for? i was just interested in that story. >> fran, before you go, where did you hear that story? >> caller: actually, i heard it on the rachel maddow show. >> it's an interesting question, fran. and there are russians that come to america from time to time in strange ways. on different kinds o

on russia. we know very well about the initial turmoil when russia -- the ruble crashed. but this occurred -- it was combined and it was combined with mistakes of the central bank. altogether -- later it started from -- and they declined in 2015 declined by 3 1/2%. is much smaller than the crisis of 2008 that was caused mainly by oil prices. so in the beginning of 2016, there were different assessments for the impact or potential impact of the sanctions. and all experts agree that it will be between one and 1/2% of gb -- gdp. there was no -- i believe that overall the decline of the russian economy -- the recession started in the second half of 2013 and lasted 9/4. was the longest recession in 20 years. it was three times less benin 2008 -- if you look backwards to the economic history will see that when oil prices went down, the russian economy was down as well. and when prices go, the economy went up as well. so i think that is the most important factor. the russian banks and corporations were

being russia. it's syria, it's ukraine, it's more interference, it's everything and there's sanctions that are imposed on russian government officials, on individual russians, on russian firms, and i think this perceives that they are familiar, and it makes them mean that the most sanctions are going to be lifted, and i think that's an interesting game here and this is why just putting pressure, and it's not a smart do and you make it very clear there are ways out. i think that's -- i think russia's approach to this is they're going to keep up with the pressure, we're going to counter with more pressure, there's no way out of this so why would we look for mechanisms for that. >> the challenge for me in thinking about this is that sanctions are a tool to help shape an over arching policy. we're starting to get tangled up in what we are trying to accomplish, this supersedes ukraine in some ways, it gets to election interference, other behavior providing aid to the top, whatever, it can be the other n

being russia. ukraine, more interference, everything. sanctions imposed on russian government officials, individual think this feeds a perception in russia that sanctions are forever. because there is not in a set path. it makes them not believe the sanctions are going to be lifted if minsk is fulfilled. that is an interesting game. that's why the pressure, i am not sure in and of itself is a smart move and less you make it clear there are ways out and the ways out don't involve russia ceasing to be russia. i think that is a tremendous challenge. i think russia approaches this as ok, they will keep up the pressure, we will counter with more pressure, there is no way out of this so why would we look for mechanisms? >> the challenge for me in thinking about this is the sanctions are a tool to help shape an overarching policy. what you just described, we are getting tangled up in what we are trying to accomplish, it supersedes ukraine in some ways, election interference, other behavior, providing aid

i'm against the plex interest in the caucasus but i'm for for a great russia and a great russia what about a great russia post and we don't see anyone that putin is grooming to replace him do we. know but i think this will to the regime or desist in the decided fight five and a half years either putin will stay because he has to protect the system he has to protect his proxy system his own security that might be one option i mean that it's interesting i read today that he may never want to leave power because he's afraid that if you leave power then no one will protect him that's possible i think that's the deal that was a deal with mr. that he and he read guaranteed his security and the security of this heavily and i think that's important also from his support the intensity of the german foreign minister has called on putin to play a constructive role on the world stage these next six years take a listen to what he said today. i mean we're interested in dialogue with russia but we also have expectations regarding russia's behavior we know that with most of the issues we're discussi

second russia of one's status quo sought russia of once didn't carry. if mr trump if president did mean business eva. he was really going to deliver a strike against last year m.s.e. war not their city yukio but a mess of war was the most likely outcome therefore any kind of reduction in tension is a good news for russia however talking about a possible negotiation for moscow well until recently it would be a good idea to have laws sells kadian summit or say assignments be to be in north korean leaders and u.s. president or western leaders it would be a good idea to have them in russia maybe there's a city in moscow where you are still because of on the full seated to the you can be sure or maybe in my native petersburg why not maybe not moscow but not now. said truth is right now russian issue is very big in the united states probably it has never been the case that russia attracted so much of the favorable attention well since maybe as a nine hundred fifty years since there anticommunist fear and a communist scare saw it to be probably a good idea if

russia's navy has stepped up patrols in the atlantic and both russia and nato have been building up forces in eastern europe at levels not seen in decades while russia has fewer ships than it did during the height of the cold war u.s. officials are especially concerned about its expanded submarine fleet and increased presence in the atlantic ocean but one military expert sees this more as saber rattling than an outright threat of war i think what the russians will do is probably over time react with more submarines operating in the atlantic more messages to us that to be aware but i think that this will be kept at a relatively low level and i really don't see a huge escalation or any escalation proceeding from these actions the u.s. second fleet will be responsible for an area extending halfway across the atlantic and will include a staff of more than two hundred dian us to brooke al-jazeera. the u.s. says its second fleet will counter what it calls russian aggression but moscow says the situation very differently in one thousand nine hundred ninety the soviet union was given assurances by

russia wants that. i think we've got a great group here today, to talk about that. i will introduce each of them sequentially as they speak. we -- as they speak. we will start with either -- with peter clements to my right, and then we will go to my far left. and my colleague george will wrap up. peter clements, to my right, is a senior research fellow and an adjunct professor at columbia university at the school of international public affairs. he left the cia just several months ago, after a career there on the analytical side of the agency. as as a deputy director for -- as a deputy director for intelligence, for analytics programs. and a number of other key posts . peter is a long time russia watcher and we are very pleased that he could be with us today. so peter, let's start with you, and i would ask each of you to try to limit it to 10 minutes. we have a big group, i'm sure we will have a lot of questions and discussion. peter: thank you for having me. it's always a pleasure to see all old friend

ukraine was quick to blame russia for the tragedy however the final report does not directly blame russia for the crash. investigators concluded the book was driven in from russia and returned across the border after the launch that was based on intercepted telephone conversations witness statements photographs and videos posted on social media but the accuracy of such evidence remains questionable. several mainstream media outlets and prominent politicians also didn't hesitate to pin the blame on russia even before the investigation reached any conclusions many reports used questionable evidence from amateur investigators like belling cat who used social networks and open internet sources to try and decipher what happened. lots of questions let's try and get into some of them with down glazebrook downs a political writer and journalist that is live on the program high down and. can i just start why do you think western countries are directly accusing russia with the probe still going it's yet to be finished and yet the accusations are already out there. well i think it's very clear that

especially in russia. the last 20 years have been spent propaganda to create the by propaganda to create the wrong attitude to politics. it is especially important to talk about values, ideas, and moral things. this sounds absolutely true to your ears. it's not in a moral thing to participate in this election. as a candidate, as a voter, as such, after the independent candidates have been cut out and this election has become a circus. it is also important also for of what of our message to the voters. to talkot complicated to this majority. our campaign from the very beginning has been a majority campaign. it was not a campaign targeted like 2% of well educated intelligentsia or 5% of them, which could be a strategy for a duma campaign where you me just -- you need just 5% to get your representatives at the duma. it has never been successful yet. but it could be a strategy. but our campaigns have targeted the majority of those feeling injustice, poverty, corruption in their everyday life. we really have pe

against russia russia will be able to kind of say will look at this whole story it was so absurd and ridiculous and in fact the foreign ministry yesterday also in a statement the spokesperson predicted that things will get even crazier so it seems that russia there is sort of preempting any evidence that ukraine may present a present against it going forward and you wonder if there's something that we don't already know one thing that we do know that has been admitted by go was that his wife didn't even know that he wasn't actually dead that he was indeed alive and christian i'd just like to ask you i mean you know that perhaps shows also the the line of thinking here doesn't it i mean remind us of who is why would somebody have wanted him dead does this seem plausible here so he needed to do this sort of the option group is a freelance journalist writing for russian language outlets which are all in opposition to president putin and his. but trinket is a member of a small community of excited russian journalists writers academics was living and working in kiev right now and within t

russia might be looking for an offramp. third, russia can play a constructive role in syria. so let's play a constructive role. let's figure out a way we can move forward on a true peace process and let the searing people choose the next leader. russia clearly will have some influence in that. there are some issues i'd like to have a conversation with mr. putin. but, it has to start with a clear statement in understanding in a public way that the whole world knows what he did by attacking our country. it's not isolated. an independent country will not allow another country to attack it without consequences. >> are we ready for the november other future interference? >> because of the reaction you saw in 2016, mr. putin has taken notice. i think he was testing to see how far he can go. think he was surprised to see the response. since the election he has been much less successful in europe. i think we're much more prepared, we need to deal with social media and know that were prepared on other platforms. elections run at the local level and we have confidence that would be nec

but also between russia and other european partners. german chancellor angela merkel she's been described as one of your pre-teens most steadfast adversaries among european leaders what is the government here in berlin expecting from putin this time around well there are two elements when you look at the german relationship towards russia on the one hundred obviously there is an interest to have good political and economic relations that's something that's absolutely clear just think for example of the north stream pipeline on the other hand there is also an awareness that there's two asian and russia is very difficult at the time and again if you look at the coalition agreement you will see exactly what i was talking about the human rights situation in russia whether we're talking about all the conflicts between russia and the west those are elements that the german government is very much aware of and in fact it says for example that the russian foreign policy requires from the german government both awareness and resilience so you ca

but just a little while later we see germany and russia standing together in support of the iran deal against american attempts to dismantle it can one of the effects of the iran deal affair be to actually bring germany and russia closer together. yes i think i think it does we have a busy strong common interest here and perhaps it shows that a many many other us have common interests as far as the new foreign minister in germany is concerned. and for the house they should give him a little bit of time i was slightly surprised when he made that announcement because this is. not to put his seed. in the coalition agreement and it's clearly not the policy it's also democratic party to which to which he belongs my my feeling is that a strong strong majority not only of social democrats since many but who will pollution once good and plenty leave the least since with russia and strongly dislikes the complication of policy that we have seen during the last time in his first interview as german foreign minister mr masse was using words like villager and hostile was speaking about russia some

was quick to blame russia for the tragedy however the final report does not directly blame russia for the crash. investigators concluded the book was driven in from russia and returned across the border after them. that was based on intercepted telephone conversations witness statements photographs and videos posted on social media but the accuracy of such evidence remains questionable. several mainstream media outlets and prominent politicians also didn't hesitate to pin the blame on russia even before the investigation reached any conclusions many reports used questionable evidence from amateur investigators like belling cat who used social networks and open internet sources to try and decipher what happened. the b.b.c. who's being accused of breaching its own guidelines and a wholly inaccurate reporting go to manchester police in northwest england slammed britain's national broadcaster after it aired a documentary about the manchester arena terror attack the programme show last tuesday on the first anniversary of the bombing and there's numerous suicide bomber detonated explosives

the month for gust from russia. to say between two sets addition to. which we already have all right thank you very much for this interesting talk we were talking to. her again former vice president also european commission discussing european efforts to rescue the deal and germany's relations with russia that's it for this edition of. next time. seventy four design submissions. seven thousand pilings. to join judges. and eight hundred sixty nonstop days of work. a russian w.b. a champion. and a russian pop stuff. show you how. long the crimean bridge was built. witnessed the construction of when you need to transport. that will help out of crimea. faster most of those you know what google more familiar quite a bit but it's clear. i don't think that is our that are out here. much as the streets are. getting a little. look. a. little bit i'll build. on them and. by then coffee session on their own. by then is a shift that long. all of a sudden it's going to not a sudden loss is going on want. some some. not so with. the most of it was revealed to the po

that's nothing special to russia. it did frame in a negative way the way that many russians thought about democracy. as a result of that, throughout the '90s and in particular august 1998, when there was another financial collapse, russia was hit hard, that's when yeltsin decided he needed a new leader. that's when he chose from obscurity vladimir putin. he became his prime minister first. and then was his anointed president. at the time, 1998, by the way, there was another heir apparent. he was a charismatic leader, former governor. first deputy prime minister. had been elected many times before. yeltsin made clear he wanted him to be the next president of russia. that financial collapse meant that that government had to resign. that's when putin came into the void. that's how he became president. >> i just want to ask you -- again, it's really important to try to figure out where this all went wrong. we all remember that in -- after 9/11, putin stood firm with the rest, stood firm with the united states, allowed the

with some hesitation nevertheless but she will tell you we have to talk with russia because russia is an important player and without russia you don't get the. new treatment in syria that in the meantime we have so many different players at the same time that neither america nor russia can guarantee find a solution but the condition is they have to talk to each other to get a final solution to convince the others around them to help them you have iran you have turkey you have saudi arabia you have a number of players in the meantime and that makes the situation so dangerous because. you never know how of when the escalation so to speak. reached is its final point and you something is happening and probably it's an escalation you don't want but you get if you look back to syria on the very moment you had an escalation of words but at the very end you have in the meantime what number of destroyed buildings no russian have been hurt and probably now is the chance to talk i think it's a very good chance in the very moment find a solution together because everybody sees it's not working th

and relations with the country between russia and the e.u. saying that they want to scrap the sanctions that are currently in place against russia and want to see russia as being a trading partner and not a threat and also quite crucially they want to revise the e.u. migration rules that currently exist which mean that migrants have to apply for permission to stay in the first country that they set foot on well we have had confirmation from the five star movement that this document is authentic but we've been told that it isn't all document and there have been revisions since that was dated on may fourteenth however we are aware they've told r.t. that there is a final agreement that's already been put in the new agreement on russia but we don't know the routing of that yet but one certainly to watch out for given the tensions between the european union and russia so why is there anxiety about these two parties coming together is seen as being anti establishment and some fear that the suggestion that these two parties could form a governing co

they will if they would come to russia they would talk to russia and they would see that. works not so bad in russia actually that there is no aggressivity from from the russian population even with the u.s. cities and all of the quote really that are here many thanks my guest here in moscow this is the end of our broadcast segment stay with us for the extended version on or you tube channel see you next time and remember. searcher out the way is anti american and anti-democratic and he can look at that quite plainly by understanding the stock price approach or half of it was that response so it's trading i think there are three hundred thousand dollars a share so the message from charlie munger and warren buffett to americans is unless you've got three hundred thousand dollars to buy one share of berkshire hathaway you're a player you're a peasant here you know they are the neo feudal lords that are building the system milking the system abusing the system and aggregating wealth as wrong see a coupon clippers and nickel and dime or they add nothing to the economy. the new

military advisers on the ground in russia is sitting on its hands in russia yesterday said we value our relationship with israel and we value our relationship with iran but benjamin that tonya was there with you saying that and that's in a strong message to iran and iran is more isolated and their becoming very broke and look at the protesters are saying and an egg is $5. the 5-dollar egg on american 6000-dollar year salary and that's how bad the economy is big when they see blissett muscles and adventurism and the us now pulling out of the iran deal it's hurting the people. not blaming the us but the regime. i think it's a moment now where iran is broke and losing front and the two fronts they have are russia and china and both are saying you got to slow this israel stuff down and you can do this and not likely to see russia support them by not taking sides israel will have the advantage in syria but the problem is what is hezbollah doing with the rockets. >> host: good morning to you, in massachusetts. >> caller: good morning. thank youe for taking my calls. i p just want to say t

previously claiming russia was the only country possessing. given to you thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. the e.u. has announced it's set to use its own economic weapon to block the u.s. from sanctioning european firms doing business with iran the u.s. has threatened to sanction any european company that deals with tehran you commission president john klobuchar said the brussels could for the first ever time impose the so-called blocking statute banning any e.u. firm from complying with foreign sanctions. put of work as the european commission we have the duty to protect european companies so we now need to act and this is why we're launching the process of activating the blocking statute from one thousand nine hundred six we will do that tomorrow morning at ten thirty start off with just what is the blocking statute well it's the strongest weapon in the e.u.'s legislative arsenal when it comes to tackling sanctions placed upon businesses and entities from the european union the law itself goes back to one thousand nine hundre

see great football inside russia russian citizens. in general almost three million tickets are distributed for the world cup so it is a grand event you seem very calm and confident during one of the operational visits to russia fifth officials were saying while washing facilities were progressing on track but the devil is in they tell us what details do they mean and what kind of details do the general public may. well it's hard for me to say which details they meant the world cup is about details world cup has very specific requirements for all the venues for all stadiums. regular stadiums which are used for. national league games they could not instantly host the world cup they need additional preparation for the need of the patient. and that's what we're doing right now all the stadiums are ready and there will finish adaptation work for for the world cup itself the decoration of the stadiums the fine tuning the stadiums and there will be completely ready for the world cup but so this is happening do you have a wake last minute cat

went to russia he went to russia he literally flew to moscow and walked around the jew see what he got up to i shouldn't be doing anything it's now so or vs why didn't we see it before we see it now and there are more of them clint eastwood openly backed trump and the russian connection is blatant clint eastwood speaks russian. pretends. oh and robert de niro he hates trump or so he says but look at the fact he cool owns a chain of alter a luxurious restaurants in moscow and he's opening a new one soon you know who goes to his restaurant oligarchs we're not blind anymore there could be russian spies in my audience and i would know everyone is a suspect. are you a russian spy now you know russian spies. ellen the generous knows what's up we need lists so i've put together a quick one to start things off this is a list of american stars who've recently been to russia they held. and did business it's time to wake up russian agents everywhere the president the republicans hollywood your neighbor your friends maybe probably even you. the pentagon has admitted that u.s. soldiers are directly

and relations with the country between russia and the e.u. saying that they want to scrap the sanctions that are currently in place against russia and want to see russia as being a trading partner and not a threat and also quite crucially they want to revise the e.u. migration rules that currently exist which mean that migrants have to apply for permission to stay in the first country that they set foot on well we have had confirmation from the five star movement that this document is authentic but we've been told that it isn't on document and there have been revisions since that was dated on may fourteenth however we are aware they've told r.t. that there is a final agreement that's already been put in the new agreement on russia but we don't know the wording of that yet but one certainly to watch out for given the tensions between the european union and russia so why is there anxiety about these two parties coming together is seen as being anti establishment and some fear that the suggestion that these two parties could form a governing coa

into russia you know it's almost five thousand german companies operate in russia with a total. revenue of fifty billion u.s. dollars. two hundred seventy thousand which is. people. in hundred russian companies operating in germany. we believe that you two governments need to continue supporting the developing the mutual try industry and technical cooperation has been one of the key areas are corporations when you discuss the full spectrum of are a couple of the energy sector including infrastructure projects in the north stream which was also discussed. not scream to you i mean we've always treated this project. exclusively economic quantum. project which. has been run by economic operators. and again. no political interference has been imposed on this project and once we launch north stream two we will continue to pump gas through ukraine. which. chancellor asked this question and as i said we will continue to pump gas through ukraine eve he's economically feasible and viable for the companies that operate this project also have great cooperation in the cultural communitarian

was quick to blame russia for the tragedy however the final report does not directly blame russia for the crash. investigators concluded the book was driven in from russia and returned across the border after the. that was based on intercepted telephone conversations witness statements photographs and videos posted on social media but the accuracy of such evidence remains questionable. several mainstream media outlets and prominent politicians also didn't hesitate to pin the blame on russia even before the investigation reached any conclusions many reports used questionable evidence from amateur investigators like belling cat who used social networks and open internet sources to try and decipher what happened. if you want to follow all the twists and turns of them or the background to in the russian side if you can check out our site r.t. dot com what's the update from our programs continue in your part of the world after this break here for me kevin o. in good morning it's now one twenty six moscow time more news in just about thirty five minutes. but. by. the way you should know it'

more the world's hot button topics with russia live on stage earlier in the north of russia at the same petersburg economic forum where president putin was joined by all the major leaders from france japan and china as well as the head of the i.m.f. from the reports on the highlights. before number one congress hall event was precious because rank one and in one case rang to politicians from such a global powerhouse as france russia japan and china talked about everything there is to worry about in international politics today not behind closed doors hot and cold donald trump at one point says no to his talks to kim and decides to ditch the iranian nuclear deal and there you have it the life of vladimir putin and magical macro and thanks to the st petersburg international economic forum are sitting shoulder to shoulder and sharing their thoughts on it here's a taste of the highlights. and we're going to do is sure that we have to do everything possible to save the deal the u.s. president hasn't closed the doors a negotiation he says he's dissatisfied with a number of issues in the deal

see great football inside russia russian citizens. in general almost three million tickets are distributed for the world cup so it is a grand event you seem very calm and confident during one of the operational visits to russia fifth officials were saying while washing facilities were progressing on track but the devil is in they tell us what details do they mean and what kind of details do the general public miss oh it's hard for me to say which because they meant that the world cup is about details world cup has very specific requirements for all the venues for all stadiums. regular studios which are used for the. national league games they could not instantly host the world cup they need additional preparation for the need of the patient. and that's what we're doing right now all the stadiums are ready and that will finish adaptation work for for the world cup itself the decoration of the stadiums the fine tuning the stadiums and there will be completely ready for the world cup but so this is happening do you have a wake last minut

was quick to blame russia for the tragedy however the final report does not directly blame russia for the crash. investigators concluded the book was driven in from russia and returned across the border after them. that was based on intercepted telephone conversations witness statements photographs and videos posted on social media but the accuracy of such evidence remains questionable. several mainstream media outlets and prominent politicians also didn't hesitate to pin the blame on russia even before the investigation reached any conclusions many reports used questionable evidence from amateur investigators like belling cat who used social networks and open internet sources to try and decipher what happened. the world's hot button topics have been thrashed eyes on stage at the same petersburg economic forum where about a mere putin was joined by other major leaders from from china as well as the head of the i.m.f. let's check in now with our tease who is on the north for a lot said on stage that he wasn't there to talk us through day to use that. you didn't hello well friday's cong

went to russia he went to russia he literally flew to moscow and walked around the juicy what he got up to i sure didn't get to be doing anything it's now so obvious why didn't we see it before we see it now and there are more of them clint eastwood openly backed trump and the russian connection is blatant clint eastwood speaks russian. pretends to. oh and robert de niro he hates trump or so he says but look at the facts he cool owns a chain of all true and luxurious restaurants in moscow and he's opening a new one soon you know who goes to his restaurants oligarchs we're not blind anymore there could be russian spies in my audience and i wouldn't know everyone is a suspect. are you a russian spy now. that's why russian spies. ellen the generous knows what's up we need lists so i've put together a quick one to start things off this is a list of american stars who've recently been to russia they held. and did business it's time to wake up russian agents everywhere the president the republicans hollywood your neighbor your friends maybe probably. even you. know another headline stories

has hacked into a lot of things the criminal clan russia was meddling in our election russia undermined hillary clinton tov or russian hacking operation these hacks have taken place by russians intelligence committee says that russia is behind this in some form its goal to do with russia and of course ian brown sugar rush is a russian so if trump invented the term which why did the democrats use that exact same term back in the one nine hundred ninety s. when bill clinton's sex scandal was all over the headlines smells like a double standard to me speaking of double standards remember how the democrats pounded the podium against gina haskell the new cia chief there are two reasons that i oppose this nomination miss haskel support for torture and her willingness to destroy evidence of the cia's use of torture and i have serious concerns about. her confirmation and what kind of signal sent this lady is the real do i'm telling you we're here with everything we possibly think she answered didn't flinch at all well it turns out that while this controversial interrogation program was going on

also discussed, the extent to which russia can exert its influence on iran. regarding ukraine, we firmly believe that we need to see a table and long lasting ceasefire and forces. the u.n. mission can help to prove curb violence and make progress. we would like to intensify the means process which we initiated together. it means that the political will, which was voiced in relation to ending the conflict, need to be implemented in the form of complete steps which should be taken and we would like to meet as and mr. lavrov agreed to hold a meeting and that is very important to this agreement because we need to give additional impet tuesday on the process. we believe that syria at the end of the day, will be a peaceful country, stable country and that matter cannot result without russia. we need to have deeper consultations and bilateral. if we fail to root out the terrorism in syria, there will be a future which i don't want to imagine. we need to tackle the roots of the crisis and the roots of uncertain groups. we believe that there is only probable economic

claim that nobody talks soviet origins were clear evidence that russia was the guilty party at the same time moscow argued that other states have the ability to create novacek and have experimented with doing just that so the suggestion that such a large amount wouldn't be found in research situations just adds to that idea that there is no other plausible alternative but that russia is behind the attack there is just one tiny problem with all of that. the o.p.c. w. would not be able to estimate all determine the amount of the nerve agent that was used in souls bree on the fourth of march twenty eighth the quantity should probably be characterized in milligrams but that whiplash inducing you turn has no one's convictions that russia did it even when combined with an announcement coming from the czech president who was produced and tested in the czech republic it was a small quantity though we know when and we know where it was done it would be hypocritical to pretend that such a thing never happened so there you have it and then mission from at least one country saying that yeah they ha

united states britain all their allies england america from russia russia actually you know enemy afterwards. and the great they left class. is that you call. this and again you turn the belge effect obviously the allies defeated the germans out i say person frogs america the americans. supporting nazi germany russia was part of the axis we were part of the axis but they were aligned with hitler i guess russia supporter germany and then they essentially lost the war through the war through a series of sieges sieges i think at leningrad and sound. of extending. it up which is good to. do you. don't need all those tickets or you can feel. the peace about oh. yeah you know you had a soviet union they were and they were also on the victory on the winning side i mean it hadn't been for the germans attacking the soviet union we probably lost before. how many times more deaths were there from russia than from the united states. three times twice that amount only knew they didn't get any recognition for morning experience no no play more like twenty million a perceived income want to. dumb you know

to take part that it allowed the ukrainian side to take part but not russia and while russia wasn't part of it they couldn't make comment on just how trustworthy it was just a periscope was then asked another question was the kremlin saying that they had absolutely nothing to do with the downing of m h seventeen he replied it's certainly what we've also heard from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov he said that there was no evidence of russian involvement that russia was ready to help with the investigation but it must remain transparent or must become transparent to the russian side on thursday now following this lengthy statement from the joint investigation team we heard from the russian ministry of defense now they had numerous issues with the evidence that was provided by the joint investigation team they said this the allegations were put forward of a russian a book missile launcher leaving a base in course making its way into ukraine and then heading back to that base in course squaw's and true that the brigade implicated in the the documents put forward and the image

russia's navy has stepped up patrols in the atlantic and both russia and nato have been building up forces in eastern europe at levels not seen in decades while russia has fewer ships than it did during the height of the cold war u.s. officials are especially concerned about its expanded submarine fleet and increased presence in the atlantic ocean but one military expert sees this more as saber rattling than an outright threat of war i think what the russians will do is probably over time react with more submarines operating in the atlantic more messages to us that be aware but i think that this will be kept at a relatively low level and i really don't see a huge escalation or any escalation proceeding from these actions the u.s. second fleet will be responsible for an area extending halfway across the atlantic and will include a staff of more than two hundred dianna's to brook al-jazeera robert hunter is a senior fellow at the center for transatlantic relations at john hopkins university he says the trumpet ministration is trying to send signals to russia and the baltic states. they're sa

one of russia's largest companies. i spoke with him about how russia and the west got to this dismal place and how it could all get a lot worse before it gets better. vladimir, welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> i'm really interested because your book sort of puts a fine line on the situation right now. you have said the west and russia are on the brink of a hot war. i mean, things are even worse you believe than during the worst times of the cold war. >> listen, this is my humble opinion that nowadays the situation is very, very tense and difficult and once a friend of mine from the united states of america asked me my opinion that was, like, two years ago to compare the cuban crisis and then today's tension. my answer is i consider the tension higher and the problems are much, much worse than them days. >> so why do you think that? because in those days you had thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at each other. you had two, you know, completely divergent ideologies and the cuban missile crisis could have broug

years russia has been developing rapidly we've seen how russia continues to develop despite the sanctions and i say that based on the company's own figures and experience the local market has changed look at what happened after the first sanctions in the food and drinks industry it reacted really fast and continued to grow. well we will be checking in live at the forum over the next few days hearing from the delegates and getting updates from our news team in st petersburg. i. there is no update on the mh seventeen tragedy the passenger jets brought down over ukraine four years ago and investigators have been giving a briefing the details of life with our correspondent in ninety seconds. our senses did a remarkable job of keeping humans alive for million years in terms of being able to hear see taste feel but now says the algorithms in the machines of the robots have evolved past humans capabilities to see more hear more understand more feel more we as humans have to prepare for the fact that we are now becoming extinct. hello again the team investigating malaysia airlines flight m h seve