firms he led earned between 80 million and $100 million over a decade from pro moscow ukrainian and russian clients." the volume of money said to be involved and the time elapsed could put him at sichbgnificant risk. del quinton. you're reporting specifically on the maneuverings of trump's legal team with mueller on obstruction of justice. again, as i was saying a second ago, the issue hovering above all of this is the president, the power to pardon, would he employ it in this case, would he do it pre-emptively if the investigation is just not sitting right with him? anything in your reporting you've picked up on that front. >> your guess is as good as mine. we all know that the president of the united states has this vast power and it's his power. we don't really know how he's going to use it. i think annmarie has offered some very cogent legal analysis so far this segment, and i would encourage people to watch it again the way she spoke about this investigation and what mueller may be doing and why he'd do things. but i think mueller is going to be very careful going forward in co

response to what state department officials call unwarranted russian action. specifically moscow's reduction of staff. russian annexes in new york and washington are also being ordered to shut down by saturday and coming up at 5:00, abc 7 news reporter examines the impact of those consulates closing. >>> authorities say the man accused of yesterday's fatal shooting is from the bay area. investigators identified the suspect as 32-year-old thomas littlecloud of castro valley. littlecloud is accused of opening fire with an assault weapon as officers served a swarn search warrant in a car investigation. two chp officers were wounded but expected to survive. littlecloud was wounded and listed in critical condition. also in custody is 23-year-old priscilla prendez. >>> this afternoon harvey has moved out of texas but the devastate the storm left behind is going to take weeks, months even years to clean up. officials say roughly 100,000 homes were damaged. as you can see the water in many places has not yet receded. the town of beaumont is still under water. there's water as far as the ey

decision from vladimir putin last m sanctions for moscow's interfering in the election by expelling 755 american diplomats. president trump at the time expressing gratitude. >> i want to thank him because we're trying to cut down on payroll. >> reporter: white house aides later dismissing that as a joke. today's action not kicking out russian diplomats but closing two trade mission annexes and the san francisco consulate general, the oldest russian consulate in the u.s. and a prominent russian lawmaker tonight insisting the u.s. is declaring the hot phase of diplomatic war. >> the trump administration had to respond. this was the right decision. regrettable but necessary. >> reporter: also tonight nbc news has learned former trump campaign chairman paul manafort's notes typed on a phone from that controversial trump tower meeting with russians during the 2016 campaign included a reference to political donations and rnc according to sources briefed on the evidence. investigators are now reviewing those notes, trying to determine if er the trump campaign or the republican party, contribut

staff in moscow. u.s. officials now closing three russian offices on american soil. annex in d.c. will close with facilities in new york and san francisco. this comes after 750 american staffers were russia in retaliation for u.s. sanctions handed down earlier this year. any mother will tell you a baby will come on their own time. horace: whenever it's ready. this mother found out the hard way. >> they were trying to get her to the hospital. in a car. the baby didn't want to wait. horace: heroes stepped in to help woman deliver not one but two babies in a parking lot. michelle: plus, why the plan to put harriet tubman on the $20 bill could be in jeopardy. >> for storm watchers, a new storm to watch. now a category three hurricane irma way out in the atlantic. i will show you the tracking and the strength and the weekend forecast, too, coming up next. stay with us. horace: "7 on your side" with experts standing by to field your concerns about utility service. water bill. the you have a question, give the phone bank a call. you can do it now. telephone 131stpreakness numbere telephone nu

. what we know now about the president is that he sought to do business in moscow when russia was interfering in our elections. we know that his team was willing to receive information from the russians in the midst of the presidential campaign. and so at this point it's too early to say whether he is called in or not but if he's a relevant witness, it shouldn't be taken off the table. >> you're saying it's on the table to potentially try to compel him to testify? >> and i speak for myself. it's ultimately a call of mike conway our chair and ranking member schiff. i do believe that bipartisan concern should be that this is an exhaustive investigation. that understands completely the personal, political, financial nature of this relationship. >> congressman you site the disclosure that donald trump's aides were seeking help from the kremlin to do business in moscow during the campaign. he said the opposite. turg the campaign, was he lying? >> yes. i hate to say it, about our president, but the evidence is clear. he went from saying there were no russians, we found out there were a

embassy staff in moscow for 755 people. >> life is about to change for many of us who walk and bike on a popular trail in chevy chase. the georgetown branch trail stretches three-and-a-half miles from downtown bethesda to silver spring. it's about to close, completely, for up to five years because of construction for the new purple line. transportation reporter adam tuss is working for you to help you navigate this change. adam, what are you >> this is going to change for walkers, bikers, people who are out here and even for people who have to get to school. >> the purple line is going to change the landscape in suburban maryland and it is going to change many lives in suburban maryland. and a lot of people who talk to news 4, simply aren't happy about it. >> i'm very -- i'll say disgusted. >> sheila lives in krefvy chach she rides his bike along the branch. but now because the trail has to close for years of construction, and because temporary trail is being set up that instead goes down busy streets. she doesn't want him riding the bike. >> my son rides his bike to school, takes h

two sites in washington and new york. moscow had already forced cuts in american diplomats, in retaliation for u.s. sanctions. but white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says, now, the two sides are even. >> we've taken a firm and measured action in response to russia's unfortunate decision earlier this year. we want to halt the downward spiral and we want to move towards better relations. we'll look for opportunities to do that. >> o'brien: the announcement came as the new russian ambassador to the u.s. arrived in washington. he urged calm, and quoted soviet founder vladimir lenin, saying: "we don't need hysterical impulses." the u.s. military put on a new show of force over the korean peninsula, after the north fired a missile over japan two days ago. u.s. b-1b bombers were joined by f-35b stealth fighter jets for the first time, along with south korean planes. south korean military footage showed the bombers and fighters carrying out bombing drills at a military field in the south. north korea condemned the drill as a "rash act." defense secretary james mattis ha

. the u.s. is forcing the closure of russia's consulate and separate cisco and scaling back moscow's diplomatic presence in washington and new york. the move is in retaliation for the gremlins order the u.s. diplomatic staff be trimmed in the russian capital. state department officials tell fox today's move brings the u.s. and russia into parity, each with three consulates in the other country. an aerial show of force from the u.s. and its allies aimed directly at north korea. national security responded jennifer griffin shows us why many in the region including kim jong un had their eyes on the skies. >> the u.s. military flew after 35 stealth fighter jets and b-1 supersonic bombers for the first time in joint drills with south korea, some relating precision strikes against what the pentagon calls north korea's core facilities. the jets were flown from andersen air force base in guam which kim jong un has threatened to strike. the f-35s came from the base in japan. it was a show of force two days after the north koreans launched a ballistic missile over japanese territory. >> transl

month ago at moscow announced that it would. read use of the american diplomatic presence in russia's forcing more than seven hundred diplomats to leave the country and donald tramp actually have commented and clear that his band was actually. beneficial to the united states as it would use today the government's payroll so so they said this russian move after from last month was actually self response to new american sanctions. and i were overwhelmingly approved by the u. s. senate in order to condemn close you pose interference in last year's presidential election but also to protect against. the annexation of crimea in twenty fourteen that's a washington considers to be illegal in the state department just released a press statement where where it cool did the russian decision from last. month's at an action down and warranted in detrimental to the relationship between the two countries and it added that this. strict labels the head of the largest private sector trade unions say he's he's disappointed though. while the communist backed cgt house announced a strike action f

is cutting more russian staff in the last which will invite yet another response by moscow this creates an endless cycle of punishment and a response from which there is no easy way out philip we have about a minute left how do you think russia will respond to that. well i'm. judging it basically on a lot of her potence responses in the past because generally fairly restrained and it's very proportionate in terms of what he does i think he will probably have be feel compelled to do something but i'm hoping it will be relatively mild brooke because just because you. know the relationship does no good for anyone it's not good for russia is not good for the united states it's not good for the american or russian people and the fact that someone in the white house someone in the administration is pushing this kind of policy is quite disturbing we're going to have to leave it there that's former cia officer and counterterrorism specialist the bludger all do you think is so much thank you. over now to our continued coverage of harvey now a tropical depression over twenty five trillion

moscow's deadline for u.s. personnel to leave their positions. in addition to the consulate near san francisco, the u.s. is also ordering the closure of annexes in washington and new york. secretary of state rex tillerson called russia with the news this morning and in a statement the u.s. state department said, it hopes that we can avoid further retaliatory actions by both sides and move forward to achieve the stated goal of our presidents and improve relations and increased cooperation on areas of mutual concern. the background here, in july the russian foreign ministry ordered the u.s. to cut its diplomatic staff in russia by half and seized property in response to sanctions passed by congress. president obama ordered the expulsion of 35 russian diplomats and seizure of two russian government compounds in response to alleged russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election. we spoke with some in the neighborhood this morning. >> there tends to be -- they are a very quiet organization. i mean, think to a certain extent they kind of try to keep arm's length and not interact with a

unfortunately the people who want to sabotage any possibility of good ties between washington and moscow have one that's the way it is now i think the russians understand that ties are not going to improve anytime soon and that has been imposed on president trump and that's just the way it is or the demand to close the diplomatic sites comes just as russia's new ambassador to the united states arrives in washington on a totally on total face sixty two years old. deputy minister of foreign affairs and deputy minister of defense in russia he seemed his office on august twenty first but only arrived in america today earlier i spoke to former u.k. ambassador to syria and bahrain painted for what he told me that it's becoming hawg for russia to read america's intentions. american action is paranoid and bipolar at the famed time. the russians must find it very puzzling to read american behavior there is absolutely no consistency the president as he made clear in his remarks seen sincerely to want better relations with russia but there are for through good work within the administration and in

moscow. statement. the how hot is this back-and-forth between russia and the u.s.? russia's decision to expel those diplomats a few weeks ago. >> the state department is not requesting that any russia nationals leave the country, just that they close these facilities. they made it quite clear that they want this to be the last of this issue for the moment and it want to improve relations. they are trying to cool it off. president trump was asked about what he made of the russians decision if you expect. "we are trying to cut down on payroll. i'm very thankful that he let go of a large number of people because now we have a smaller payroll. there's no real reason for them to go back." fit this into what we've seen at the state department lately. statee a secretary of who wants to bring the budget down. >> it has that ancillary affect. i'm sure he would have liked to have orchestrated it in a different way. at the same time, tillerson is seeking to have better relations with russia. a spokesperson said he and lavrov spoke before this announcement and expressed their desire to improve r

moscow in response to what. at the recent actions in lebanon now interestingly to be noted the us leaders also stepped in their nations that they were not party disagreement with the ice or terrorist so some may speculate that this could also be a motivation for the strong response we've heard from washington. i think a lot of thanks for bringing us up to speed on the situation the thought you can live. with us live to. in effect as you discuss this. program. why do you. think it. lastly. body of us americans are angry because this agreement was actually made or reached by hezbollah and the syrians who are in the production so they would like to see this agreement. to me and or has the law to have any kind of contact. with the state because that would be the agreement. because if you look at for example. which was liberated. by active forces actually there was an ice cream in between up through american forces that iraqi forces. islamic faith. based america which is. american groups and then you know i don't know where it's safe to other parts of the of. the americans you know of

in moscow. guess what robert mueller is here to do? unveil them. >> politico reports that he's actually working with new york state attorney general who is sharing evidence of discussing their separate investigations involving manafort who has denied any wrong doing important to say. but the important thing here, it comes just a day after msnbc's chief legal analyst ari melber first reported that one state attorney general's office was looking at jurisdiction for russia related crimes. this is major because state investigations can circumvent president trump's power to pardon his aides for federal crimes. >> can you imagine president trump when he realized his pardoning power doesn't apply to state? bet he didn't like that. >> the beat's ari melber joins us live now. eric sneiderman is generally involved in these type of things, he sues a lot of people and he's an activist on that front. but the idea that he could take over some of this investigation or share some of the prosecution, does change the dynamic entirely with respect to pardon power. >> it changes the dynamic and so

it's five pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow i'm neki erin. a former fighter from the u.s. vetted syrian rebel group has claims that his commanders told american supplied arms to islamic state is just one of the many striking claims he's made in an interview with our colleagues that russia has received a twenty four channel of who interviewed him after he fled from a u.s. military base r.t. is that red line in my of earlier talking more. there is no local support as the us is not interested in anything except its own interests such as the ripken refugee camp which also has those fighters relatives and out some civilians conditions that are really bad children have no place to study and there is no medical care americans only support people who are in their interest i can tell you that they behave like occupiers cannot independently verify this circumstances under which the interview was taken was recorded but the now former us played it fighter who apparently fled the area along with a few dozen other rebels describes in

broadcasting to you live from moscow and good to have you with us this hour but first we start with breaking news this hour russia's federal security service the f.s.b. says it has arrested two islamic state members that have planned a terror attack in most go on september the well for more on this story i'm now joined live by the. medina what do we know about what happened today in moscow. well russia's federal security services have detained two people who allegedly were planning terror attacks they were detained in moscow and in the moscow region now before one of the detainees was captured he managed to post a video online where he pledged himself to the islamic state terrorists and after that it was also reported that he planned to conduct a random scholtz on people in the streets now asked for the second detainee who is also reported the one of the i still terrorist homemade explosive device that was found in his home as well as other components and elements to produce one and now according to federal security services he was a suicide bomber now another detail of this case th

spokesman has to say about that e-mail on trump tower moscow. also, the president hits the road to sell a tax plan. the only problem, there's not much of a plan to sell. instead, he's warning congress not to disappoint him. >>> and the number out tonight of american who's believe president trump is tearing the country apart. "the 11th hour" begins now. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i'm ali velshi in for brian williams. there was day 223 of the trump administration and tonight, harvey has been downgraded to a tropical depression after a dramatic day of rescues played out on televisions across the nation. the president had hoped to win the news cycle with tax reform after his speech in missouri, but instead, and again tonight, it's russia providing a slew of dramatic headlines. just in the past few hours from the "new york times," trump lawyer vehemently denies russian collusion. from the "wall street journal," manafort's political work had a patron, a russia oligarch. and perhaps the biggest of all, from politico, mueller's team -- muel

with you thank you now it's very interesting for us here in moscow to see how both president trump and his predecessor president obama are strongly reviled by certain parts of the american political class but regardless of whether they dislike president tromp of president obama more some americans tend to blame president putin for all their failures and i see you are among them aren't you because you were very unhappy with president obama but he doesn't get even half of their wrath that you reserved for mr putin well let me say the following i think there are areas of potential convergence between russia and the united states and many areas of divergence in the areas of convergence is perfectly clear that where you have is a russia that could work with the united states to deal with this long with terrorism that is an area that is in the interest of both nations and then if you're interested in areas of divergence all you have to do is look at the russian alliance with iran and the possibility that iran wants to create a swath of land from iran to the mediterranean which is very am

help on a project to build a trump tower in moscow while trump was running for president. today kremlin has confirmed it received that e-mail from cohen although it does it did not respond. cohen says he discussed the trump tower deal with trump himself on three separate occasions and that trump signed a letter of intent for development with the russian developer. in 2015 as trump was running for president and to many people oddly praising putin, trump associate felix sater was associating with vladimir putin. one e-mail reads, buddy, our boy can become president of the usa and we can engineer it. i will get all of putin's team to buy in on this. and also wrote to cohen the effect of, can you believe two guys from brooklyn are going to elect a president. remember, we only have a very, very small portion of the e-mails between sater and cohen so there must be some missing context here, right? why would two guys from brooklyn think that standing a building deal in moscow for trump would have anything to do with getting him elected for president, unless there was much more going on

? for some reason he invited me to his house outside moscow. and for some reason i went. mikhail, thank you so much for talking to me today. >> my pleasure. can i call you steve? >> stephen: yes. >> if you said no, you will never leave the country. >> stephen: that's hilarious. okay. tell me how to oligarch? okay, great. again funny joke, is it a joke? >> nobody knows, in russia. >> stephen: that's the funny part. what's your weird quirk? what's your eccentric thing where people go that's cool he is a billionaire. do you, like, grow out your nails really long? no? that's-- >> no. >> stephen: that seems fine. do you, like, save your bodily fluids in jars? >> no. >> stephen: do you have exotic pets? like a pet rhino? >> i watch reruns of "the good wife," that's about all. >> stephen: what's the best thing to own if you're super rich? do you have a yacht? >> just a piece of advice for you, steve. don't be attached to things. be free. >> stephen: okay. but you do have a yacht, right? >> yes, i have. >> stephen: okay. do you have a jet? >> but i don't know where the heck it is. >> stephen: y

move on to our main story. for our main story, we turn now to america's capital, moscow. ( laughter ) as you know by now, the trump campaign's possible ties to russia are currently under investigation, both by congress and separately by robert mueller, the special counsel and handsome bird impersonator. ( laughter ) now, just to refresh everyone, the big question in all of this is, "what was the connection between donald trump and the russian government?" and all along, the donald has always answered that question like this: >> i know nothing about russia. i know about russia, but i know nothing about the inner workings of russia. i don't deal there. i have no businesses there. i have no loans from russia. i don't owe money. i don't have deals in russia. i don't know putin. i have nothing to do with russia. haven't made a phone call to russia in years. don't speak to people in russia. not that i wouldn't. i just have nobody to speak to. ( laughter ) >> trevor: yeah, "i don't even know what a russia is. i don't even know. on my map there's china, then there's white china. i don't eve

hawks that we. will watch. right now twenty twenty past the hour here in moscow thanks for joining us now the governor of afghanistan's. afghan civilians have been confirmed killed when a nato helicopter attack the house thought to be hiding taliban fighters. the jet plane bombed here it bombed the house all the houses were destroyed only two or three people survived look at the house you can ask people whether the taliban were here or not. but. no confirmation of the strikes from nato or the u.s. led coalition but a spokesperson for the nato led mission in kabul says the reports are being investigated if the strike would be the second deadly of afghan civilians in the last four days it was on monday that thirteen civilians were confirmed killed and over a dozen wounded in an airstrike on the western heritage province the government says it was targeting taliban fighters but locals again said the militants had left the area before the strike the two incidents to demonstrate the risk of civilian casualties from the intensified raids on the country. meanwhile the us has acknowledged tha

trump tower moscow. and as that deal fizzled, michael cohn sort of in this last-ditch effort sent an e-mail to the general mailbox of the russian press secretary, kind of the russian equivalent of white house.gov saying, hey, can you help me resurrect this deal. but michael cohn is putting his cards on the table. he has gone through the dossier, as it's been called, point by point and is issuing, you know, a pretty serious categorical denials that there was any sort of russian collusion. and he's trying to follow in the jared kushner mold and say this is all bogus. there's nothing to this. kind of put up or shut up. >> your reaction and to matt appoint about michael cohn's pushback. >> let me address the significance of connecting with new york attorney general eric schneiderman. this is say very significant development particularly because we're hearing increasingly that there is discussion behind closed doors about trump and pardons for this circle. this is a very important point to make. the president cannot affect state prosecutions and state crimes through the pardon power. there

. thursday morning here at moscow and a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at international. to syria now where the battle for what was once considered i suppose defacto capital is taking a horrendous toll on civilians caught in the crossfire the u.n. estimates now that dozens of civilians are being killed on a daily basis. the u.n. estimates that's an average of twenty seven people are being killed in iraq every day. up to twenty five thousand civilians still remain trapped in the city and they're increasingly exposed to the crossfire of the ongoing fighting. they risk being killed either by astroids. mines if they try to flee. there is. constant air raids from the coalition so the civilian casualties are. large and they seem to be no real escape for these civilians. one of the planes bombed us heavily this happens in downtown bend around isobel slaughtering people that many were killed and houses were destroyed in the coalition shelling targets civilians and civilians four story houses full of people all over the neighborhood certainly many have been killed among the my co

on what haes just shaken loose from the trump tower-moscow story this week. the president's eldest son, don jr., will be testifying to congress soon. we've got first word about that yesterday. we got really interesting development in that story this afternoon. a little more on that coming up later on in the show. the don jr. testimony plan is apparently already getting messed with by the white house and by the president personally. again, more on that later. and as josh dawsy just referenced, about the news he broke in politico tonight, that eric schneiderman and bob mueller is working together. on the paul manafort part of the russia investigation there's also news from the financial times that the mysterious russian fixer who turned up at that trump tower meeting last june, that has such an intriguing background in hacking attacks where documents are stolen from people's computer servers and then used for good political reasons, he apparently has been called before robert mueller's grand jury to give several hours worth of testimony. that happened on august 11th. we're just learn

cohen was pushing plans for a trump tower property in moscow. a kremlin spokesman says the russian government did not reply to the email, and the project never went anywhere. in myanmar, some 18,000 rohingya muslims have fled to bangladesh in the last week. the u.n.'s "international security organization for migration" reports they're fleeing attacks by government troops. it's the latest conflict between the minority rohingya and the country's buddhist majority. >> ( translated ): in myanmar, they are killing us. they burn our houses, killing muslims, and because of that we have come here. they rounded us up with helicopters, looted our belongings, chasing and killing our men. they killed many people so we came here. >> o'brien: in response, hundreds of buddhist nationalists called for a crackdown at a rally in the capital city of yangon today. they say rohingya militants started the trouble. more than one and three-quarter million muslims began the hajj pilgrimage in mecca, saudi arabia today. they came from around the world to circle the kaaba, tracing the footsteps of the prophe

building a trump tower in moscow. a spokesman for vladimir putin says the email was sent to my loyal for dawn trump. the us president's ties with russia already the subject investigations by multiple congressional committees as well as the us department of just. venezuela's new constituent assembly has voted unanimously in favor of putting opposition leaders on trial for treason. accusing them of supporting economic sanctions imposed by the united states. the vote comes as a new un report found that have been extensive human rights violations in venezuela. due to efforts to repress political position in the country. about talking is not the answer thought was president from sunday morning statement on north korea. not surprisingly it came in a tweet and many are left wondering whether a diplomatic solution is still on the table. it follows yesterday's missile test which pyongyang says was just the first step of military operations in the pacific. a un security council resolution has condemned the action. the b. b. c.'s rupert wingfield hayes reports from tokyo. these are the first pictur

take it all in with the new information. they were seeking to build a trump tower in moscow. they were seeking the kremlin's help and all the while during the same year of 2016, donald trump was saying things like this. >> i'm all over the world but we're not involved in russia. >> i have nothing to do with russia. >> i have no dealings with russia. i have no deals in russia. i have no deals that could happen in russia because we've stayed away. i have no loans with russia. >> i have nothing to do with russia. i have no investments in russia. none, whatsoever. i don't have property in russia. >> not for lack of trying, ambassador, we reached to you to do some kremlinology. interesting wording here from a central putin figure. he said he didn't respond to the e-mail because it was outside of his job description. here is how roueuters described it. we do not react to such questions about business themes. this is not our job. we left this matter without a response. does that mean that no one else involved in putin's circle or outside business interest might have responded after prodd

be planning a tower in moscow. when did that planning ever stop? and also in the russia investigation could robert mueller be putting the squeeze on paul manafort? "the wall street journal" reporting that manafort's former lawyer and former spokesperson have been subpoenaed by mueller and his team. nbc news still working to confirm that report. and here to guide us through all of this is is our russia sherpa, nbc's ken dilanian. thank you for taking the time to kind of explain this. i mean, look, we have been focused very understandably on hurricane harvey. there are a lot of reports, new details from "the washington post," "new york times," from nbc news and you and your team. can you walk us through what you think the top line frame on this, what do we know now about the investigations that we don't know at the beginning of the week? >> absolutely, kasie. a number of things. the thing you just mentioned about this potential trump tower moscow deal that was going on right up until january 2016 while donald trump was running for president. that to me is extraordinary. le

moscow, and this happening in late 2015, early 2016 in the heart of the election. and that cohn had asked vladimir putin spokesman and top aide about this. list ten to what trump said, though, about his business dealings with russia. >> i have no idea about the inner business dealings with russia. i have no loans with russia. i have no dealings with russia. i have no deals in russia. i have no deals that could happen in russia because we've stayed away. i have nothing to do with russia. i have no investments in russia, none whatsoever. i don't have property in russia. >> it seems like he's leaving some things out about the dealings that he pursued in russia there, alice. >> clearly what his attorney michael cohn said and what the president said are not consistent. they're saying two different things. this is yet another reason why i think it's important for this administration to fully embrace this investigation, get all the information out there on the table so we can put this behind us. there is a lot of smoke surrounding russia, and until we put it completely out, there is going

. internationally moscow and cakewalk. the battle to force islamic state from war torn iraq has devastated civilian lives particularly those of children r.t. is continuing its campaign to find the relatives of children abandoned by their parents fighting for myself more of these children from mosul were recently brought to a baghdad orphanage. i didn't come on with you. to get out with. some of you. told us that show you eat. this. not us come. here. and you're watching this show. i want you just heard the children don't speak russian but the kids who were with him say that they're from chechnya the girl's name is she's badly burned her foot the little boy is called mohammed he has a knee injury most children are still under a lot of stress if you recognize either of them please contact us on children at r.t. t.v. dot com ati's what i guess the of takes a look at the problems children face in war torn iraq. these children have seen more bloodshed and agony than most adults will in a lifetime nearly ninety percent of children have lost a member of a family either they were kidnap

tower project in moscow, however the kremlin never replied because it was not their issue. and they added the project was never discussed with putin himself and don't know trump's attorney or his associate on the project. >> and trump's company later abandoned those plans. >>> and during a trip to springfield, missouri, the president will explain his vision by creating jobs and cutting tax rates. but no specifics will be made yet. because there is no details proposal. >>> james mattis is creating a panel to try to carry out president trump's ban on transgender personnel in the military. they will develop a plan that will promote military readiness and unit cohesion. until there is a plant all current transgender members of the military can continue to serve. >> former white house press secretary, sean spicer got his chance to meet pope francis. he long wanted to shake hands with the pope. however, president trump did not invite spicer along with him to meet the pontiff efrlier this year. he was able to get the meeting he wanted this week during a trip to italy. ♪ ah, my poor mouth

moscow thank you for watching i'm kate partridge and let's start with that top story the o.s.c. has called on ukraine to stop arresting and deporting journalists from other countries and soft ukraine security services announced earlier on wednesday as a russian journalist will be forcibly removed from the country twenty nine year old anna who works for russia's channel one and is based in kiev had received threats because of her work. well for more on this story i'm now joined live by question of ohio that means you know we can tell us about what's happened today well ukrainian security service is released this statement and according to its russian journalist on the will be deported back to russia now at the moment her documents are being processed for her official deportation earlier today russian channel one said that anna was taken right in the streets by a group of unknown man and put in a car all contact with her was the last stand the channel had no information regarding her whereabouts now ukraine security services claimed that everything was conducted according to the law a

for watching r.t. international coming to you live from moscow with the news headlines and kate. the u.s. led coalition has confirmed to r.t. that its forces exchanged fire with turkish backed rebels near the syrian city of man beach artie's jacqueline virga explains how events unfolded. has found itself between a rock and a hard place in syria namely between kurdish and turkish forces both of whom are supposed to be american allies but consider one another and to me it seems tensions are on the rise with a coalition spokesperson revealing that u.s. backed forces exchanged fire with pro turkish rebels not once but several times in recent weeks when patrolling areas held by the forces turkey supports. patrols that have been conducting patrols in the area to keep tensions down received multiple times over the course of the last two weeks now the u.s. has told turkey to pass on to the rebels they support that firing on u.s. led coalition forces is quote not acceptable adding that patrols will continue and warning that coalition forces are always prepared and ready to defend themselves i

domestic, it's foreign. we've seen this with trump tower moscow and all entanglements that makes us question something we shouldn't have to question. is he acting in american's interest or his own wallet. ethics have relied on decency and are not hard laws. he needs to codify this stuff and put it into law. >> my understanding was there's no business deals in russia. >> again, we have been so, so numbed by all the lies, the cascading of lies, that you really need to go back to the very beginning. you need to go back to the original greek. mike pence saying, you know -- >> it's a biblical reference. where mike pence was saying, oh, wait, we never talked to any russians. we were just talking to the american people. and they actually -- they all said that. we never talked -- i mean you've got all of them saying it never happened. >> i'm bringing it in for a landing because the show's over. thank you very much for being -- >> the twins? >> they're coming in the wild card, i think. >> that does it for us this morning. >> thank you guys all. margaret, thank you. >> christine jansing picks

on moscow. chief white house correspondent john roberts fills us into night. >> the project launched in september of 2015 was a gleaming hotel, office tower, and residents that would dominate the moscow skyline. at the center of the proposal, trump organization attorney michael cohen and deal broker felix slater who would act as liaison between the trump organization of the russian government which would have to grant permits for the project. november 3rd, 2015, an email to colin breaking that the project would be a boon to then candidate donald trump. writing "our boy can become president of the u.s. and we can engineer it. i will get all of putin's team to buy in and manage it." in a letter,: laid out the timetable for the project, signed by late january 2016 it became apparent "the proposal wasn't feasible and should not be pursued any further." cohen said seder "sometimes used colorful language." president trump said he had no business dealings with russia. >> i have nothing to do with russia. i know nothing about the inner workings of russia. i own nothing in russia. people thou

the trump towers all over the world, moscow does not have one. >> bret: sure about the deal was being talked about it. there was a push in february, january 2016. you would think nothing at all might not be the accurate statement. >> let's look at what the investigation is supposed to be about. everybody breathlessly predicting you're going to see interference, collusion, and affecting the election results. last time i said hillary clinton, not the russians, propelled donald trump to victory. i think no one can argue with that. that's what we promised. but for collusion, that donald trump would not be president, that's just not true. adam schiff and mark warner, the democratic members and the committees, they spend more time on tv than they do investigating. >> bret: the investigation is not over. do you expect it to end soon? it's churning up a lot of interest. the president and others have said they will cooperate. people are revealing informatio information. don jr., jared kushner. others have said they will come forward. what do we have so far, when the president says it hasn't go

its russia witch hunt with news reports that trump business associate, communicated can moscow about a proposed construction project. john roberts has our report. reporter: project launched in september of 2015 was a 3ming -- gleams hotel, that would dominate moscow see line, at center of proposal trump organization attorney michael koen, and deal broker who would act as liaison, november third, 2015, they sent an e-mail to koen, saying it would be a boone to then candidate donald trump, saying our boy could become president of the united states, and we can engineer it, i will get all of put up a team -- putin's team on buy in on this yesterday, cohen laid out time table saying by late january 16 it became apparent that it was not feasible and should not be pursue any further, and said that seder, is sometimes used colorful language, and has been prone to salesman ship, president trump said he had no business dealing with russia. >> i have nothing to do with russia. >> i know nothing about inner workings with russia. >> a lot of people thought i owned office buildings in moscow, i do

this system since. r.t.e. london twenty fourth here in moscow teachers in british schools are increasingly reporting cases of possible radicalization among students it comes amid widespread criticism of a government initiative called prevent which is aimed at combating the problem to prevent a strategy was introduced back in two thousand and six with three main objectives challenging ideology of supporting terror protecting vulnerable people and that also supporting sectors at risk of radicalization however critics claim it alienates muslim communities and impacts human rights and freedom of expression earlier we discussed this with the founder of mothers against radical islam and shari'a tony bugel. from the muslim council of britain. well first of all i think that the numbers are actually that they're probably a lot higher because we have to ask ourselves how many are not being reported i think if these concerns are being brought forward by teaches them it's a real concern and one that we have to take very seriously and it's something that needs to be addressed now because i