-russia relations. margaret warner, icu with a microphone. >> my question is, should we actually be going on offense in the information war, in the cyber war, in terms of delegitimizing not just exposing the corruption, the playing offense the way they are playing offense? the answer is yes, but not necessarily in the cyberspace. most of what happens in cyberspace is altering information or preventing information from being able to come forward. i think we should be on the offense of of making it clear exactly what we know russia and orpington in particular is doing. -- russia and or putin in particular is doing. we should be working closely with our european allies around the world and exposing and getting them to stand up and it knowledge with us that this is what is happening here. that message gets through. to go back, when i got here, the vestige of that cold war was an attempt to broadcast the truth into russia. and i think somehow, we have to have as the democracies of the world, have to be bette

. -- lead russia. look at the state of russia now. there are an enormous decline. >> will there is enormous decline. they have a second rate military power they have significant , advantages geographically where they are engaged, they have a nuclear arsenal that could blow up the whole world, but in terms of their efficacy, their capacity -- it is the minimus compared to ours. they have an oil-based economy. you have it going from a market value of $350 billion to $300 50 billion in the last 10 years. what do you do if you are a democratic leader of russia? what do you do? how do you provide jobs for your people? where do you go? how do you build that country? unless you engage the west. i do not know how that happens. i have not given up hope, i am not my you have noticed i have , been a very strident voice in the last administration about putin and russia as i am now, but that does not mean that this this ist accompli, that how things are going to be. the last point i will make, when my dad had the e

. -- lead russia. look at the state of russia now. there are an enormous decline. -- they are in enormous decline. they have a second rate military power. they have significant advantages geographically where they are engaged, they have a nuclear arsenal that is -- it can blow up the whole world but in terms their advocacy, their capacity is minimalist compared to ours. they have a situation where they are an oil-based economy. from a market value of $350 billion to $50 billion in you dot 10 years, what if you're a democratic leader of russia? what do you do? how do you provide jobs for your people? where do you go russian mark how do you build that country? i don't know how that happens. -- i amot given up hope not naive about it, i have been a very strident voice in the last administration about putin and russia. that does not mean this is completed, that is just the way that things are for now. my last one element is that expression -- don't back a man into a corner, his only option around you is ov

medusa is one of the regions, independent, in russia to news in russia. [speaking in native tongue] now, in december after three years of working we have alrea already. in medusa i specialized in narrative stories like big stories about isis and influence and links to russia like this example of scout immigrant workers became islamic state fighters or like my topic lgt problems in russia and political groups against lb gt like the story. the last two years particularly i worked in stories about russian hackers. russian hacking activities against russia for example, this is an article about how russian services recruited guys from around the country russian cyber army. now, in the cannon institute and in the book it's the history of russian hackers from the soviet to today. today i will tell you stories about them. i don't want to talk a lot about possible russian packings for the american election and i think the last two years but i want to talk about russian hackers and their connections to government. elsewhere in the world, in russia the [inaudible] w

how much is russia putting up? those who have joined the us coalition they should alsojoin the joined the us coalition they should also join the international effort to assist in the reconstruction of syria. how will russia joined that effort? how much will it put up?” cannot give you a specific figure, because they are estimates. the wine you referred to, citing, that is one estimate, there may be others —— the one. i have not heard any estimates coming from the syrian government. certainly it will be a huge sum. does russia recognise is responsibility in needing to repair the damage it is responsible for? russia recognises its responsibility for achieving the results of the military involvement, which is destroying the assets and the basis of terrorist organisations in syria. we are also involved in promoting a political solution in syria. indeed. you are also involved in shoring president assad is still in power and in control of much of syria and yet you are asking much of the eu to pay reconstruction mon

his interests which are maybe more with iran than with russia because russia is an ally with israel and now i would add but acid in israel and israel and iran are not allies at all their enemies so these co-writing agendas right now in syria may create even more war than there was before when there was a uniting kind of enemy the state and now there isn't. unfortunately momi have run out of time we could do a whole nother program on this i'm sure we will so many thanks to all of you for joining us today on inside story. and most capable for going to and ended by now to madison salah. and many thanks to you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website miss al jazeera dot com and vote it's gotten to go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for slash a.j. inside that story you can also also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story from the floor a car and the whole team here that's by for now you get i am getting. the scene for us where they're online what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it nev

that sort of news i would like to move on to russia is russia currently a security threat for the u.s. sure it is. russia is the only other nation that possesses the ability not necessarily the will but the ability to destroy the united states or all the other members of the alliance. and their behavior of the last three years since they invaded ukraine has gotten has raised the concern of everybody including all members of the alliance all members of the european union. and it's it's the kind of thing that i think nobody wants that. conflict is not inevitable we all want russia to be a part of the responsible community of responsible. not with their current that they're not on the right path not right now we what we would like to see them back on the path of responsible behavior as a great power it's a great nation great people great history so many places where we could cooperate with them but they don't cooperate with you anymore well they've not lived up to any agreement that they've signed including minsk and other treaties unless you really put pressure on them to do that that's

russia hacked into the u.s. irish and british power grids fake russia was influencing the braggs it vote through social media fake russia hacked into cataloging a separatism and was promoting cataloging a separatism in spain real how about buying ads on social media.

outside of russia. so i wonder how -- what is it like for you to work as a journalist on these topics and what do you ski as -- do you see as the roll of the periphery countries as a base, perhaps are, for russian independent journalism. >> thank you. i guess medusa is based in latvia, but i live in moscow, as a -- because we writing about russia and if we don't live here, we don't understand anything. this topic is really difficult in russia but this topic is difficult in every country, i think. most of time of my reporting on this term is wait, wait, wait, wait for some guy who talk me to some to tell me that he need to talk with this guy or -- >> i think it's a difficult topic for everyone but from what we hear about what happens in russia, how hard it is to be an independent journalist there, do you fine that this -- do you have a feel it's actually dangerous for you to report this topic? >> no. if you go to chechneya and if you have meetings with radical groups and lgbt but this is -- i don't know

with a like russia on this russia and dark russia isn't bad either. frankly people are really very crazy yeah ok is it true for us. ok yeah and we will be safe here in and just have to even such payment so used to it you'll use three excellent well a list of the event starting my show i want to start you thank you very much it's nice to me and i could look at my few bucks and. kitchen's out a little we speak in the bikini's and screenshots and shit yes but such a large scale of it starts of thanks to crazy russian. yes they met a man but as i wouldn't have up really said he was a salesman i would that will send me yet a kenyan crucifying you are yet to actually. hear what. i did i should say yes. to my losing that in the place you lost them yeah you can like about us but those can make you noticed i didn't begin a spell in the bed of the human i just might want you to give up a good time with us mike you don't about sort of rule is a little of the one number. of but on this it this huge surprise not to mention is just that singular in the me on the bu

what trump and his team did toward russia, did back to russia right after this election in which russia tried to help them win. we knew before tonight that during the trump transition, top trump transition officials were in on the decision to have national security advisor mike flynn call the russian government secretly to try to under cut the inposition of new sanctions that the obama administration was imposing on russia in response to them messing with our election. mike flynn did not make those calls alone. top echelons of the trump transition knew he was doing that. they were in discussion about the strategy while he was doing that. ultimately, flynn ended up lying about that to the fbi and the rest is history. but in addition to that incident that happened after the election during the transition, we know from michael's reporting as soon as the trump people started landing at the state department, they started working right away on a proposal to have the u.s. unilaterally drop sanctions. their actions after they arrived in washington so alarmed state career department people, peop

and to stop speculation regarding the meddling of russia. maybe it is not russia. maybe it is another country. i see a lot of cameras and that is why don't want to name other countries. of particular interest to united states, because they raise speculation. why the russian federation? is it just only because of the problem between democrats and republicans? i do not want it to interfere in your internal relations. i would just like to answer your question. my proposal to you, you meaning the united states, to restore sensitive links of communications between our counterintelligence and security workingto start together. i will repeatedly say we are not enemies. we are partners. we were allies in the second world war and we are fighting global terrorism. it is high time for us to have constructive discussions about open and transparent discussions about security challenges that we face. if we have concerns, we have openly discussed them by fitting together, but not through mass media. it is very easy to speak through mass media. just only to send one signal, to say

more opportunity for russia. if russia would decide to keep the territories, it is not very important. if you can give siberia to china, who knows? maybe that is a great opportunity. i think that would be a very unstable station. peter: another question. right over here. >> i am a student here at the honors college. my question is, what do you think is russia's role in the middle east, today, especially given what is going on in syria and with america kind of leading the picture and also given the painful history between russia and its jews, what is the appropriate relationship that israel should have with russia? natan: on one hand, this one is easy for me to speak about putin as a dissident. putin is a former kgb officer and is not a big fan of democracy. on the other hand, it is difficult for me to speak negatively about putin as a -- activist.sts putin is the first non-anti-semite in russia in a thousand years. i can say a lot of bad things about putin. he is permitting or supporting the development of jewish

why should russia do that? because minus such engagement, there's going to be no money coming into syria or legitimatization from the broad international community either for russia or for syria. and we believe that is meaningful for russia. >> thank you. i note that you've referred several times to the u.n. security counsel 22-54. when i take a look at article iv of that, it has this wonderful vision of a syrian-led process that will produce a new constitution, free and fair elections, that will be held within 18 months. 18monts has long expired. it would include the dvoting, al wonderful and beautiful. we have a geneva process spons r sponsored by the u.n. it just seems like there's no real traction towards the vision laid out in 2254. there's a lot of chaos and messiness, i guess. how do we get from this goal of cooperating to assault isis, which was kind of a clear objective -- now that is largely accomplished, how do we actually get traction towards the vision of 2254? >> it's a mix of approaches. the firs

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turkey russia. and the u.s. i think europe which as they become more like a less relevant actor and of fight despite being bearing. brunt of the fighting in syria with the refugees and attacks in iraq could play a significant role here by mediating between these forces because of actually their economy power political you know. leverage on russia turkey and others and turkey and the kurds are two potential allies of europe in the syrian conflict john symond ogun going to yield is richard weiss thank you very much indeed for your contributions of program and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. insights sorry you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is. from me has a lot of the whole team here by phone now. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place a so-called secret city getting to the heart of the mat

and i have to say my whole idea and i'll conception of russia change why was that we're all members of a conversation and so correct in that regard exactly you know people saying oh well you know is it is it going to be difficult leave the communications and the transfer going to be difficult and i t sound quite the opposite i was pleasantly surprised i traveled around it was in moscow st petersburg sochi khazan and everybody was very welcoming and wonderful cities lots of people obviously want russia to host a very good world cup how important is it for the host nation to do well to to gain momentum in that country. i think is very important and i think that one of the most important things that i would like to do is that they start dealing with the race that they have enough countries and you think they're doing that at all to your satisfaction but i'm not sure that they're doing enough. i've had some players working as quickly to not have some players playing over there and they've been. abused. that's something that they need to deal delighted to join boyer corps and so very lit

>> at the heart of the trump-russia mystery. >> i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge, no person i deal with has. >> but there were secret contacts. >> breaking and stunning news. release of an e-mail chain. >> it came from russians. >> some denials that defy facts. >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> it's disgusting, so phony. >> i didn't take any money from russia, if that's what you're asking. >> a shocking dismissal. >> the president of the united states has terminated the director of the fbi. >> he's a showboat, he's a grandstander. >> those were lies plain and simple. >> donald trump's changing stories. >> i own nothing in russia. i don't have any deals in russia. >> i've done a lot of business with the russians. >> compliments for vladimir putin. >> he is very much of a leader. he's done an amazing job. so smart. >> where does the story end? >> you may or may not find evidence of an impeachable offense. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics.

throughout europe this seems to read over again it is all about russia in the european parliament with members clashing over threats and fake news allegedly coming from moscow. thanks for joining us you're watching. said that there's a possibility the north korean crisis won't be resolved peacefully u.s. president claims that's because having dialogue with pyongyang is next to impossible i can speak now to r.t. course particularly more on the line from the united states donald trump has reverted back to his usual rhetoric then when it comes to pyongyang. yes if you look at this interview with reuters donald trump is at his typical rhetoric against north korea and this time he seems to be saying that pressure is the only way forward because it seems like dialogue is impossible this is donald trump i'm not sure the talks will lead to anything meaningful these talks for twenty five years and they've taken advantage of our presidents of our previous presidents now if you listen to trump's words you would think that the dialogue currently taking place between north and south korea just simp

and of russia's bloodiest years. we are giving lessons, most of them, many are what you shouldn't do. but how is the revolution seen in russia today? are there echoes of 1917 in 2017? i'm steve rosenberg and i'm going on a journey across russia to find out how russians view the revolution that came to be known as "red october". myjourney begins where the revolution began at the winter palace in st petersburg. soviet cinema would portray it as russia's bastille moment. the people are led by the bolsheviks, storming the palace and creating the world's first communist state. the reality was rather different. for a start, many of the red guard revolutionaries who had got into the building that night had slipped in through a back door which hadn't been locked. there was no dramatic storming of this palace. as for claims of a mass uprising of workers, peasants and soldiers, well today that might be referred to as "fake news". this was a coup — one party, the bolsheviks, had seized power in russia. the palace today is the

russia. exerting all the efforts to find our political asylum settlement unfortunately and i shows just approaching this issue by the same means it's used for the military solution after it's interference on in two thousand and fifteen and that's why it is having real problems in finding this settlement or in finding a solution in other words the syrian case is one of the rights of a political solution rather than a military one because the military solution has really proven to be a disaster it's not our due to the fact that it has divest they did their country displaced its people and without getting any results for them and and that e.g. in doesn't seem confident as you reported in your report in your introduction which is. i believe a misconception of the stew asian. because of the iranian element the iranian factor and the question factor that again is still there how could it feel confident ok without it it would go back and it all into more details about the different players in the co

behind the soldier in it's in the holy notion of the mother russia. and it creates actually a distance this is something that they found the frightening because they diffusion of this going to criticism really creates. a deep a gap but it made mr mudd if i may interject here i think this is a very interesting observation i think it's also very true but i would point to what lies at the root of. jihadist sentiment toward the west is not on cultural separation but primarily in this the sounds of and just as the sense of an indignity the bloodshed the suffering that western countries brought into many arab society i'm sure they were driven by good intentions the west always things that it's ok what matters to the affected countries i think what matters to the afflicted countries not the intentions but the actual results don't you think that russia has the reason to be concerned at the same kind of do gooding would be visited upon it by the western countries i'm in i see an enormous difference here. between the two situations but i wouldn't deepen this mu

china and russia want of course china russia doesn't want a nuclear iran peninsula least of all because they would spread to other nations including japan for example and south korea this is not very good for both china and russia and then of course even learn from history what has changed for example it went nam war when the united states trying to topple the. north vietnam regime and then ended and in retreat but what has now changed now is not war is not coercion but you could all mix so economics is a very brave powerful way to create a kind of your apology is not a job and enjoy every moment of what a lot of people do not a lot of people do say if you follow a junior economics and you can also understand geopolitics i want to ask you just just briefly here why is it why is it that you have the real game players in the on the korean peninsula they're actually holding talks the north and south talking together but then you have another group over in canada the former korean war allies making up their own rules for some sort of resolution why why two groups meeting separately instead

i wrote about the pro-russia party and another. i wrote a story whether he should have registered as a foreign agent. a matter that appears later in paul manafort's indictment. when he suddenly surfaced in the trump campaign, i was struck by that. this is congressman adam schiff questioning glen simpson at this point. he says quote, if you would, go through with us some of the russia related things that concerned you that you learned in the first phase of your research doing work for the free beacon. answer, the funding of bayrock was much of what we were officially clernd about and focused on. the company seemed to have some sort of funding source that was opaque. we spent a lot of time looking sends at the people around that and their backgrounds and why trump would be in business with them. that was one of the major issues. bayrock developed the trump soho with donald trump and his business. another issue was the amazing number of people from the former soviet union that purchased properties including dmitry rybo rybolovlev at a

and russia in many cases showing an inclination towards russia. how do we work with our allies in europe to make sure they don't wind up either through leverage or propaganda beginning to move into a different orbit? >> well, my nato friends get mad when i say this, but some of the things i think is funny about nato is if you're in a conflict with russia, you're not allowed to be in nato. isn't that the people we want in nato? that precludes ukraine. ukraine is i believe on the front line of this battle. they not only are fighting a hybrid war, they're fighting a hot war. i think that's a perfect example of where the russians get away with things. people are still talking about what's happening in ukraine as a separatist movement. the 920 tanks that are in eastern ukraine are russian tanks. and so the fact that anybody thinks this is something other than an invasion and the fact that the russians said we need the u.n. to arbitrate this is a real simple solution. leave. leave the country that you invaded. that will solve that. that will solve that

they are putting russia on notice. meanwhile, the senior white house official tells us that the president is not expected to address the russia investigation in his state of the union address tonight. >> abby, thank you for all of that background. let's discuss it. okay, we have a lot to talk about. let's start with this mystery memo that the republicans wrote that they voted last night to release. there's so much that's so strange. they're not going to release the republican memo but not the democrat rebuttal. but the department of justice and the fbi has not had a chance to vet it. so where are we? >> the justice department very pointedly criticize what had the committee was doing for releasing this classified information, which is at odds with the trump justice department. i think a couple of observations that i have, one, why is it that the administration is launching this assault on the investigation, on the fbi? why do they keep looking like they have so much to hide? why does the president reportedly threaten to

well russia is a big military power brand to the has become an influential player in the region for russia it seems to be very important to the turkey a lot of them to fight against parts of the so-called al nusra front which is a part of the syrian opposition in egypt province province so there is obviously something big at stake here as well moscow wants to drive a wedge between turkey and nato between turkey and its western allies because for russia the greatest prize could be if turkey breaks with the west and is special with united states yes speaking of the united states what are we to make of washington's luke warm reaction to all of this. let me ask you i mean why why has america's response so far been so muted. well because washington is walking a very fine line on this issue i mean the u.s. clearly doesn't want to anger turkey a key nato ally but of course it has also no interest in an all out extensive a war against the kurds because of course the kurds played a key role in defeating isis the islamic state in syria so the u.s. so the u.s. in a way is in a very difficult position

and the competitors from russia who will be allowed to take part in the games will do so in the name of the neutral paralympic athlete and this means not only national symbol such as the anthem and the flag will be banned but also even attribution to a country international paralympic committee says the decision is meant to send a message to russia. we hold our decision here announced today it will influence russia for the racial to have a different approach on that because they haven't met the criteria and the grittiest stays for restatement of. by a while there also have in their criteria a fully acknowledgement of what happened that there was a systematic dropping scheme in place in russia. since the accusations of systematic doping first emerged russia's overhauled its anti-doping institutions still not all of the cleaner fleets will be able to go to the pyongyang games of those sixty seven tested and cleared of having taken any banned substances only thirty to thirty five will be allowed to compete that is if they meet a list of criteria that must confirm none of them was ever i

today would would russia recognize the state of palestine would russia declare use troops on the capital of palestine well i'm pretty sure that russia will not be the first power to do that and that's precisely because of what's happening across israel's border in syria because for russia the greatest stakes are there and risking the relationship they have at the moment of prime minister netanyahu for nor clear benefit the geo political benefit or geopolitical certainty at this point of time i think russia would deem that as extremely risky that's why i'm asking actually about the european union because the european union is not involved in syria or in libya to such an extent so perhaps they have some leverage with all parties that they could employ deploy rather it's too difficult for the european union representing so many countries to be able to make a decision which is so controversial so i think that we will see european policymakers encouraging individual countries to take steps that empower the palestinian authority that recognizes props. the state of palestine they talk about i k

and here how do people in russia see putin syria policy it was a great victory for russia why not the war lasted too long it was time to pull out now we don't have to pay as much in tax. most of those who we asked to were in favor of withdrawing russian troops over if they called as the withdrawal the most important foreign policy event of the past year russians are tire it and say pump and brands are all well and good but it wouldn't be bad for the government to tone it down russia's economic problems coast in part by western sanctions will remain largely unresolved even in twenty eighteen. nevertheless is and to will remain as the country's most popular politician in twenty eighteen and he expects a victory in march why because the kremlin promises stability and muzzles anyone who questions is their promises the only serious challenge off saying of ali was not allowed to run for president. he has already announced his plans to appeal the decision. politically russia is already starting to heat up and it probably won't cool down off that election with a camel and can only hope that t

the russia gate still kind of moves along though its parameters are or are thinning . here but one story that stays with us and i think we should have been at the very center of it is the fusion g.p.s. christopher dossier we have republican congressional officials coming out saying they want an investigation of this parallel we have a new investigations into the clinton foundation three of them possibly four here so both are fine have a life of their own mark here but i'm really really think this fusion g.p.s. thing is the key to it this is the this is the glue that has the entire russia gate conspiracy theory how is it pulls it all together going you know there's a big broad legal pushback that's the story at the beginning of this year against russia gate. metaphor is suing the f.b.i. special investigator mueller for stepping outside the boundaries of anything to do with the election trump russia gate and going back in through his tax records from from more than a decade ago so he's calling for judicial review of the powers that mueller has we have the clinton foundat

when questions were raised about whether or not russia had perhaps meddled in the e.u. referendum here that led of course to that decision for britain to leave the e.u. to resume a used a big foreign policy foreign policy speech late last year the mansion house beat to come down very hard on russia and although there was no proof this idea this theory that russia had meddled in the referendum somehow took hold and became very popular take. so there were no facts and there was no evidence nevertheless the government decided to launch a big inquiry into it late last year and they all asked the big social media platforms twitter facebook to provide evidence and the evidence that they initially provided the government said it wasn't happy with they said there wasn't enough there for them to work with there was nothing really particularly incriminating and they accuse twitter last year of stonewalling the inquiry so they provided a new deadline they said you've got until early january to provide more evidence so lo and behold the situation we have now is that twitter has com

but focus on russia. policies ande based on the assumption that engagement with russia and global governance would turn into a benign actor and a trustworthy party. the national security strategy said that this premise has turned out to be false. do you agree with the national security strategy? think that the premise of engagement with russia is destined to fail. especially if you look over the long run. increaseave seen is an of russia acting out. think we could also see that there were some missed opportunities. the goal of integrating russia into both international and , the imf,nstitutions the world bank after the fall of the collapse of the soviet union, but also institutions like the council of europe -- i think that was the right choice to make then. going back to your question about, was this inevitable. there was a certain original sin the capture of russia and you cannot get around that. you saw that prior to the last administration. he saw in georgia in 2008 with the cyberattack in estonia on

emails wiki leaks equals russia therefore one plus one equals three and the kremlin and trump are in cahoots a message sent in the final stretch of the twenty sixteen campaign if this email on september fourth gave donald trump his son and others the decryption key for hacked wiki leaks documents illusion question right because we could weeks was actually acting as an agent of russian intelligence the media frenzy was however short lived the files had in fact not been handed over before being made public but after so not the knockout blow to the president they were all hoping for surprisingly about the whole story was based on one e-mail from our random guy and somewhere in the build up to the revelation hitting the headlines numerous people had read the date incorrectly the list of fakes goes on and on especially for russia somehow in the mix and inflammatory claims centering on russia are some of the best out there and that's despite one major outlet being caught admitting the hype was all just a big red herring what do you think's going to happen this week with gold rush. was . re

game continued at the security council on that same nikki haley's statements were more about russia than anything else she even accused russia of killing the joint investigative mechanism but at the meeting russia said that the joint investigative mechanism became a political tool and called for an impartial investigation into all cases of chemical weapons use in syria including the joint investigative mechanisms new reports so we're not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth or that politicizes what must be an independent and impartial investigation. of the fact that the us dismissed all proposal right from the start reveals the truth that they do not need an impartial investigative mechanism even though several other member states supported the proposal of a new impartial investigation the us rejected it saying that it's ready to bring back the old joint investigative mechanism quote but all other suggestions are unacceptable right mechanism samir a mention was established in twenty fifteen by the un security council along with the org

and i have to say my whole idea and i'll conception of russia change why was that who are members of a conversation so correct in that regard exactly what you know people say well you know is it is it going to be difficult for you that communications and the transfer going to be difficult and i actually found quite the opposite i was pleasantly surprised i traveled around it was in moscow st petersburg sochi khazan and everybody was very welcoming and wonderful cities lots of people obviously want. to host a very good world how important is it for the host nation to do well to to gaming to me not contrary. i think it's very important and i think that one of the most important things that i would like to do is that they start dealing with the races and that having that country and keeping by doing that it's all too well satisfaction i'm not sure that they're doing enough. i've had some players i'm working a school play to not have some players playing over there and they've been. abused and that's something that they need to be able to be joined boyett corps and that's all very much.

assad iran and russia parties in europe. the united states and they you hate so much i mean they will be asking these questions and then the mainstream media and they will say russians russians are sprayed all but he was and it is so obvious i mean could you not have seen that turkey would never ever in a million years allow any sort of kurdish state quasi state border security forces whatever they call it under their country of presence underneath turkey of thirty million kurds in turkey there was no way turkey would ever allow it in a million years they don't see this truck campaigned on ending the process of nation building ending the process of euphemism of democracy promotion and ending regime changes which he said as as counterproductive and destructive to u.s. policy across the middle east he also said what are we doing in syria if hillary clinton has her way we will be starting world war three with russia in syria over al-qaeda and this is the trump administration has compete clearly capitulated to the only guns and

this will not come under the present circumstance. >> we need russia to cooperate. >> russia needs to put pressure on the regime to abide by the security council resolution so yes, why should russia do that because mine is engagement there is no money coming into syria for the broad community from russia or syria and we think that is meaningful. your insight.or >> thank you ambassador. i note you have noted that when a take a look at article for it has a vision of the syrian lad process to produce a new constitution with free and fair elections to include the diaspora of those international standards of accountability and transparency. now we have a geneva process sponsored by russia with iran andon turkey with the cooperation of that geneva process that the un is not involved but it just seems there is no traction to that vision laid out with chaos and messiness. how do we get from that goal that was a clear objective? how do we get traction from 2254? >> the first is to try to engage in a positive and negative sense of what they have committed to with their own support and directly

about russia's behavior. well certainly that in my view the greatest threat of any nation on earth well here's how it all began on january sixth of last year u.s. intelligence agencies issued a report saying that russia had tried to influence our elections with this russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in twenty sixteen aimed at the us presidential election russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the us democratic process denigrate secretary clinton and home her electability and potential presidency we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president elect trump now the authors of the report at the time said they had high confidence in their judgments a few pages later they explain exactly what they meant by high confidence with a little disclaimer high confidence generally indicates that judgments based on high quality information from multiple sources high confidence does not imply that the assessment is fact or a certainty such ju

and here how do people in russia see putin syria policy it was a great victory for russia did the one of the war lasted too long it was time to pull out now we don't have to pay as much in tax. most of those who we asked to were in favor of withdrawing russian troops nor over if they called of the withdrawal the most important foreign policy event of the past year russians are tire it and say pump and brands are well and good but it wouldn't be bad for the government to turn it down russia speaker not to call them in part by western sanctions will remain largely unresolved even in twenty eighteen. nevertheless let me putin is and to will remain as the country's most popular politician in twenty eighteen and he expects a victory in march why because the kremlin promises stability and muzzles anyone who questions is their promises the only serious challenge of saying of ali was not allowed to run for president he has. already announced his plans to appeal the decision. politically russia is already starting to heat up and it probably won't cool down after the election with a camel and c

saga russia gate it really represents to export russia gate to other countries. during the run up to the break that's what we heard nothing about russian influence but once russia gave exploded in washington opponents of breaks it seized on the concept of russian meddling so with no facts and no evidence but a great deal of media interest it's got to be said and public interest at the same time the government made the decision late last year to launch an official inquiry into fake news into russian meddling and official committee that was charged with it they asked all the big social media platforms to provide information and twitter and facebook they came but back with information originally but what they came back with the government wasn't happy with they accuse them of stonewalling the inquiry in even threatened them with sanctions if they didn't cooperate fully take a look at the correspondence between twitter and the inquiry into fake news i would ask the twitter provides to the community at least for accounts linked to the internet research agency and any

with a like russia on this russia and that russia isn't bad either. frankly people are really very crazy yeah ok if you sit through many possible threats because the area. ok yeah. just be safe you're in and just have to leave in such payment so you used to know your story excellent well it looks like the event starts english i want to start you thank you very much as i continue my i'm good looking i see you back then. it turns out that always keeping the bikini's in screenshots and shipping yes to such a large scale of the start of things to crazy russian. he's going to blow up a middleman but there's evidence that he has a salesman i want that will soon reached me yet can you survive here where you have to actually keep the cheese theory here for. me why did he i should say yes we're. losing that in the place you lost them where you can like about us but those can make you noticed i did begin studying the web even when i typically might but you've got to give up a little bit more yes mike you're going about sort of cool is a little of you tube one n