russia marked the centenary of the revolution that came to be known as red october. for this special programme steve rosenberg travelled across the vast nation to find out how to find out how russians view the revolution one century on. it's 100 years since the russian revolution. a seismic event for the world. there's a quotation that says, "the october revolution opened a new era in world history." it was the start of a great experiment. 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 revoluti

relevant today i'm sure they are and i'm not debating that but in today's russia the way russia sees it there are two fundamental problems first is the sanctions and anti russian sanctions and leaders in larchmont let's talk about the interaction sanctions i know that your president has actually said that. the sanctions are hurting russia and here up do you think there could be damaging enough for them to reverse them actually told to trade has increased in spite of the sanctions so imagine how much it would have a national service that is the point so we can do much more if there are no that kind of political problems but but i said you need confidence building measures and it's not one sided effort it's two sided effort that i think we have you have to go back to why sanctions are cured and you have to be able to solve those problems behind that but. that is something that is almost unsolvable because then i could tell that for the we are in the point that he appointed you think the sanctions that work in the in the in the present world you cannot say there are problems that are in

sure to read our blogs. one focuses on prussia and russia file and the one that focuses on ukraine [inaudible]. to today's event all you need to know about russian hackers we are very pleased to have as our speaker who is here with us for a few months as a cannon expert at the cannon institute and investigative journalist based in moscow, russia. he works at the russian news website and he studied his career at [inaudible] and works for the biggest russian news work and was fired for political grounds and left along with its reporters and editors and started it independently medusa in 2014. most of his reporting is on the refugees and the lg tp rights in russia in the islamic state. in 2015 he got the gq award in journalism about reporting for isis and its connection to russia. his stories have incited in "the new york times", the new yorker, the guardian and other respected western publications. i will add that he received the [inaudible] prize which is the most highest russian journalistic award and i will add parenthetically that the founder of it was [inaudible] who also happen

, thank you very much. time now for the cnn special report, the trump-russia investigation. >> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. >>> only being a politician for a short period of time, how am i doing? am i doing okay? i'm president. i'm president. you believe it, right? >> a shadow hangs over the white house. >> why so many lies? >> this is not normal. >> the most explosive evidence yet in the russia investigation. >> the urgent questions. >> was it appropriate for you to meet with the russian officials? >> is it true that mr. manafort owed you millions of dollars? >> how is all of that not collusion? >> at the heart of the tru trump-rush mitrump trump-russia mystery. >> i have nothing to do with russia. >> 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

russia helped him turn the tide but after the military gains what kind of political settlement is possible this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. two thousand and eighteen dollars when examining a story that has dominated headlines for the better part of the past six years syria is on many minds because of the millions either dead one day or made refugees two thousand and seventeen was a good year for president bashar al assad's forces rick captured major cities and large areas of rebel held territory the russian result of saucy is due to host a new round of talks in january but after so many failed negotiations the prospect of peace remains elusive we'll get to our guests in a moment but first zain the whole reports from beirut. syrians in search of safety there may be less violence because of russian brokered local cease fires but there are still active lines in some areas of the country over the past year the opposition lost sizable territory and the syrian government with the backing of iran have also recaptured areas from. the government is stronger than it h

far russia gave his you'll do nothing ok. if you indictments but none of it has to do with russia but if this four page memo from what we've heard. this isn't a masking of the highest levels of the f.b.i. and it shows that how intelligence was weaponized against political foes that will be the real scandal and i don't know if the media if the liberal media will reflect that but in fact that may be what's happened i don't it but you might have a problem with that but i don't think the majority of the media has a problem with that and i don't think the majority of the american people really care on either side what's going to this point there was a c.n.n. political reporter. rested who admitted on inside politics this week that all c.n.n. talks about is russia russia russia russia gate but no no no no no no no no if the united states actually cares i can agree with victor i don't think this will be a silver bullet either way i think that you know this this witch hunt will continue i'm far more interested in the way that the democrats and the media have tried to frame it they have argued

pulling back the curtain might be a vital first step he says to prevent further interference the russia blaming trend hit full throttle of course almost a year ago now with the release of the us intelligence report that kept the momentum going throughout two of the seventy. arguably the biggest story of twenty seventeen was russia it was on the lips of world leaders and politicians but this wasn't always the case this was obama's analysis of the country back in twenty fourteen russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. not out of strength but out of weakness regional power weakness well that was the past in the last year we've seen russia propelled to be the greatest threat on the planet in the words of the former f.b.i. chief what kind of threat do you believe russia presents to our democratic process given what you know 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

, former vice president jill biden on u.s. relations with the kremlin, russia's influence on the middle east, and the foreign policy under the obama administration. this is one hour and 20 minutes. >> good afternoon. i want to welcome one and all to today's council on foreign relations meeting. >> i want to welcome everyone. i urge you all to read our latest issue. we talk about how countries have failed or either dealt with the legacy of their own past. this deals with countries like south africa, but also the united states, given our complicated legacy as well as russia, china and others. i would invite people to look at it. the subject of today is another article in the magazine. i should probably introduce myself. my name is richard hoss. i work here at the council on foreign relations. >> and i work for richard. richard: we are joined today by the gentleman on my right, joe biden who served as the 47 vice president of these united states and now leads the biden center. for diplomacy and engagement. let me say something about this center that is based here in our nation's capital. i

which is just wrapped up thanks for watching so you know it might not. russia hosts talks to end the war in syria but the main opposition stays away and others are suspicious russia has the biggest back of syrian president bashar al assad so can it play fact or will it simply enforce its only vision of peace this is inside story. the at . the end. hello there and welcome to the program i'm laura kyle a new round of negotiations to satele the syrian conflict is being held in the russian resort of sochi but moscow may have a hard time convincing the wilds it can act as an honest broker russian military might has helped tip the nearest seven year long war into the syrian president's favor the main opposition is boycott of the talks the western powers say sochi could undermine efforts in geneva which is backed by the united nations and as roy chalons reports from such a these latest talks have already got off to a rocky start. the saatchi congress almost on ravel before it had even begun with a group of turkish backed opposition figures arriving in sochi airport in the early hours of thi

penn-biden center. bass the form your secretary for russia and eurasia and the two of them are the co-authors of the recent article in the same issue "how to stand up for the kremlin -- stand up to the kremlin? " their piece addresses many of the same issues. bob blackwell on how to respond to russia's intervention in the 2016 election and how to respond to the geopolitical challenge that russia poses to u.s. interests around the world. i returned from moscow a few days ago and i was struck by how limited this relationship is. it is less substantively than it was during the four decades of the cold war. i am struck by how different our views of the world are but also how it comes out in the article by the case for exploring the possibility of limited cooperation and meeting the challenges posed by north korea's nuclear missile program or trying to reduce conflict in eastern ukraine or syria. with that, let me thank both of you for being with us today. thank you for writing for our magazine. let's start. i will ask questions for a few minutes and then we will open it up to you, our mem

coordination with russia with syria with iran and with and now i believe that. a very very clear message that you know that americans are actually out of the liable. and they cannot actually count on them. or rallies against the military operation helping held in turkey as well as a number of european countries police in istanbul reportedly use force to disperse a demonstration earlier detaining at least a dozen people we are keeping a watch on the situation along the turkish syrian border any and all developments will brought to you here on r.t. . turning our attention to the u.k. now where the head of the army in the main threats facing britain and russia is seemingly top of the pile general nick carter wants money to be our kate to bridge the gap between british and russian capabilities. the arch exponent of this is russia i believe represents the most complex and capable state based threat to our country since the end of the cold war they represent a clear and present danger they are not thousands of miles away they are now on europe still step i believe our ability to preempt will respon

that president chum's a cheney general has been questioned over alleged collusion with russia plus. they oscar nominations are out to a fantasy drama the shape of water in a way with thirteen nominations. the last challenge seen as a potential threat to the re-election of egypt's president abdel fattah el-sisi has been detained by the military sami and has also called off his campaign the phone with the chief of staff is the latest in a string of candidates who've been forced to withdraw from the upcoming presidential elections. yours. just days after he announced his candidacy in his country's upcoming presidential elections egypt's military has arrested former egyptian armed forces chief of staff sami ana. in a televised statement the military said i'm committed violations when he announced his presidential bid without obtaining permits from the armed forces he's also accused of committing forgery to be included in the voter database there are two explanations for. this one is that he actually miscalculated the level of support that he has within the military institution and with

that steroids or three. thousand zero zero zero zero zero i call russia. left left left more or less ok stop that's really good here's what people have been saying about rejected and i think it's the long. the only show i go out of my way to find you know a lot of the really packed a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of marty americans do the same we are apparently better than. the sea people you never heard of love back to the night president of the world bank. seriously send us an e-mail. welcome back across the uk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to mind you we're discussing some real news. ok gentlemen let's switch gears here. we're being promised i don't know if it's going to happen victor but this week we'll get that four page memo released to the public that is details the use or misuse of. warrants to listen on into. american citizens the g.o.p. of course is spinning this is some kind of silver bullet the left is dismissing it as a conspiracy it is not a civil war it is unlikely to change the trajectory of the investigation and he is . he's way towards. elected

either china or russia but it will grandstand hence the ten thousand or so barrett fifty caliber sniper rifles to ukraine that is grandstanding the same with rocket man in north korea it's a way of the u.s. boasting forcefully but what i would bring home i think is the contrast between forceful boasting of trump and the very much more successful forceful boasting of teddy roosevelt and the difference is that teddy roosevelt was announcing america's debut on the world stage and america had forty percent of the world's manufacturing today it's absolutely the opposite terms of trends and direction ok let me go to christopher christopher year in iraq war veteran i mean if i could just ask you personally i mean it seems like we have the continuation of this mentality of empire in i mean for iraq it's been a disaster for afghanistan it's always a disaster but and you know and what's happening in syria hear it but we don't seem to learn any lessons here you would there do you see that what the problem is here . right i think there's a few different issues i want to try to address as many of th

complicated legacy as well as russia, china and others. i would invite people to look at it. the subject of today is another article in the magazine. i should probably introduce myself. my name is richard hoss. i work here at the council on foreign relations. >> and i work for richard. richard: we are joined today by the gentleman on my right, joe biden who served as the 47 vice president of these united states and now leads the biden center. for diplomacy and engagement. let me say something about this center that is based here in our nation's capital. it will officially opens its doors february 8. the mission of the center is to develop and advance smart policy and influence the national debate on how america can continue to lead in the century and is founded on the principle that a democratic, open, secure, tolerant and interconnected world benefits all americans. full disclosure, the former vice president and i go back more than 4 decades. he was a newly minted senator, i was a wet behind the ears young staffer on the senate side of the hill. over the last 40 plus years, we h

discredit russia in an effort to punish our country for protecting its interest in pursuing independent policy. regrettably, relations between our countries are still being politicized and abused. russia is being graham leslie groundlessly accused of meddling into the united states's elections, and other domestic and external problems of the united states. the expulsion of russian diplomats, seizure and search of our diplomatic property, along with the removal of state flags of the russian federation, infringement of rights of the russian media, all these actions are destroying the foundation of the russian-american federation. the russian threat is constantly used as a pretext to strengthen the solidarity -- which takes forms of military planning. a clear example is all the hype around military exercises in 2017 conducted by russia and belarus in september. we were accused of preparing for invasion of the baltic countries for occupation of ukraine. there were rumors that once the exercise was over the russian troops would remain in belarus. none of this happened. it was all fake news.

bipartisan, transatlantic effort to understand the assem metric tools that russia and potentially other states are using and to deter such activities. while the threat of foreign interference in our democracy may seem new to many americans, our european partners and allies are familiar with these aki all. there are many lessons we can learn from others who have experienced encountering these activities. standing together as independent sis across the atlantic will be the surest way to preserve that foundation of our strength. we also know that putin uses a range of asymmetric tools, and we need to look at them comprehensively as a tool kit and counter that range. these tools are evolving and as the u.s. intelligence community's assessment of the 2016 election released just over a year ago assessed, moscow will apply lessons learned from its putin-ordered campaign aimed at the u.s. presidential election to future influence efforts worldwide. moreover, we know that russia's efforts to undermine our democracy have not stopped as russian oriented networks on social media continue to i

says that pulling back the curtain might be a vital first step to prevent their interference the russia blaming trend hit full throttle almost a year ago with the release of a us intelligence report that kept the momentum going throughout the whole of twenty seven think. arguably the biggest story of twenty seventeen was russia it was on the lips of world leaders and politicians but this wasn't always the case this was obama's analysis of the country back in twenty fourteen russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. not out of strength but out of weakness regional power weakness well that was the past in the last year we've seen russia propelled to be the greatest threat on the planet in the words of the former f.b.i. chief what kind of threat do you believe russia presents to our democratic process given what you know 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 in

twoure to excellent blogs. and theses on russia other focuses on ukraine. today's event, all you need to know about russian hackers. we are pleased to have a speaker who is here with us for a few months as an expert at the canon institute and an eight investigative journalist -- and an investigative journalist based in moscow, russia. at theted his career biggest russian news website at the time. after the editor in chief was fired by the publisher on political grounds he left of the publication along with most of its reporters and editors. focuses of his reporting on the refugee writess in russia, lgbt in russia, cyber security, and the islamic state. he got the gq award in journalism for his reporting about isis. his works have been cited in the new york times, the new yorker, and other respected western publications. he was also the recipient of the most prestigious award in russian journalism today. the founder of the award also happens to be a fellow at canon. we are pleased we have such a strong representation of russian independent journalists. >> thank you. hello, everyone. it is

conference with nancy pelosi regarding russia's influence on the 2016 presidential campaign. this is just getting underway. >>> that oath was tested when the u.s. intelligence committee concluded that russia interfered in the 2016 elections and will do so again. one year from today the community made that revelation. since then, more information about the scale of russia's rising threat to our democracy has emerged. the unprecedented attacks requires a whole of government response. the american people deserve a comprehensive and fair investigation into the totality of russia's attacks on our system. yet the republican controlled house continues to block democrats' efforts to investigate the attack. last week i sent a letter calling on speaker ryan to let the investigation continue but received no response. today the house has held one full committee public hearing on the most significant finding of the report. the continued vulnerability of our elections to foreign interference. house republicans must show leadership and join democrats to find answers to the multitude of vital unanswered

seven from russia's opinion from china as a painting from united states opinion do you feel like brussels should have more power than the national capitals in the european states because becoming stronger politically kind of means that as well i think it's a very critical question they were in their world what is the foundation of strength. is it political gain political integration stability. or or what kind of capacities you need in order to be influential and politically powerful i strongly believe that at the end of the day everything depends on your scientific and technological capacity. those nations those need regions in the world. that are able to create the best potential for scientific and technological development and innovation are going to be winners today and especially in the in the future and that is what i hope that the european union is able to do we have a lot of potential in europe and europe should use that potential you know much more efficient way and then political integration is secondary he it's needed but it is secondary to this let's say foundation to

, we've been doing our best to protect russia's national interest on international affairs including the interest of our people, and interest of russian companies, which often are discriminated against. and simultaneously we do our best to protect international law, based on the u.n. charter. working together with other constructive forces, internationally, we've been upholding universal values of truth, mutual respect and cooperation. doing our best to prevent the d degradation of the international world order which is seriously upset to date and we want to our best to prevent the world from d descending into chaos and confrontation. specific areas of work, i'll comment on that when i answer your questions. i'll only answer right now that this year, this new year will continue with our efforts in all those areas. this includes, fighting terrorism. we saw serious progress with that in syria and currently syria is at an important stage moving on to important dialogue and working together with turkey and iran. preparing for dialogue with congress where a wide range of syrian forces wil

see that and it's how it's happened. russia calls for a new international probe into syrian chemical weapons attacks for the us secretary of state claims moscow burrs responsibility for all such crimes regardless of who's . also ahead this hour protests brickyard to a crawl switzerland against the gathering of the rich and powerful at the world economic forum in davos where donald trump is expected to make an appearance later this week. on the american government confirms that several u.s. citizens were among the twenty two people killed in a taliban assault on a hotel in the afghan capital of the week. six pm in beijing at nine pm in melbourne on one in the morning right here in moscow welcome to r.t. international my names you know name our top story the u.n. security council has just concluded the session on the chemical weapons attacks in syria for the details let's cross live now to see mira samir a high there tell us what was said at the u.n. here in new york today. well let's first go into what happened exactly just today rex tillerson said that assad may be continuing to use

international says no more sanctions on russia despite signing a fresh batch of restrictions. the state department says what's currently in place is sufficient and it's not going down too well with the democrats. the u.s. votes to release a secret memo that is said to expose the misuse of f.b.i. surveillance powers against donald trump but some republicans say the revelations of. watergate. it might be a soldier's worst enemy if they could reveal the secret locations around the world the truth i've been training. to study and o'clock on tuesday morning here in the russian capital you're joining us here on c international and a very warm welcome to you. trump has again sent the u.s. media democrats into meltdown with the state department now saying there's no need for fresh sanctions against russia it comes off to congress voted almost unanimously for a package of restrictions back in the summer. today we have informed congress that this legislation and its implementation are deterring russian defense ails the trumper ministration had the solution to make whether they would follow the la

hilarious he actually said that european voice isn't hurt and mongst russia and china and united states and that's because europe european union is a vegetarian amongst meat eaters and it was very there that quote do you think do you think do you think e.u. should become more predatory how would that look like i think europe has values which foundation for for the future of europe us especially. i don't want to say that technological development means that you have to you have to. make. a human aspects or cultural aspects but the fact is that technologies are moving forward much faster than cultures cultural changes are very difficult to be done and these legacies are big problem for for political decision makers and europe has its own legacies and it has to be able to solve these legacies and these legacies are linked to the fact that the european story has been creates story but. those factors which are behind story of europe. twenty thirty forty years ago. we're going to take a break right now when we're back we'll continue. talking about. facing stay with us. with the islamic state

zero zero hitter here i called russia. twice thrice. left left left more or less ok stuff that's really good that. when i was a child small seemed wrong when old rules just don't hold. any new world beliefs yet to shape our disdain comes to educate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. this is harlan kentucky. with all of these new voices you can walk through street fanny's. a co money city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal mines a sudden ban that's that it was a laugh to see these people the survivors of a world disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. we've seen that market failure many times we thought fifty thousand a day we thought in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven we saw that in one nine hundred eighty seven and we're going to see it again probably in the very nea

declassified list of russia individuals as part of a sanctions law signed by donald trump in august the so-called kremlin list includes the names of one hundred fourteen politicians and nearly one hundred top business figures but the treasury denies those on the list are actually being sanctioned a short time ago i discussed it with artie's medina culture of. it is quite a big list with a lot of names that includes almost all top russian politicians and businessmen including prime minister dmitry me to be deforming minister sergey lavrov and russian ministers now in total there are one hundred fourteen politicians and ninety six a businessman those businessman whose fortune is all for one billion dollars and they've got business in europe or the united states are also according to the u.s. treasury department and the inner circle of the russian president now the publication as. saying sions bill which was signed by u.s. president donald trump back in august last year but the u.s. treasury department denies that it is a sanctions list it is not a sanctions list and the inclusion of individu

area and not. involved in the other. types of. 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. 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 they ask me 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 and 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 treatie

being absolutely controlled in russia in schools in the media whatever this is not how i experience russia but obviously as you just pointed out we have to agree to disagree but for the time being we need to take a very short break and we'll be back in just a few seconds stay tuned. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat and where i would see me. i'm facing christmas of love out on the streets of london. well you. better call up a couple of dozen for you like. you know to simulate the still give up food for the homeless. because you don't really feel next to the big you know. and then. the guy just came over to me saw me and gave me a change of this book. all see we have a great scheme we need to strengthen before the freefall world cold and your bets have been a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waving spirit to the r.c.t. . recently i've

has reclaimed russia. i sat down with her to discuss this, president putin's seemingly endless reign and why she thinks that arizona senator jeff flake is right to take to the senate floor to dom pair trump's attacks to the media to the rhetoric of joseph stalin? >> masha getsen, welcome. >> thank you. good to be here. >> totalitarianism, joseph stalin, they seem to be having something of a rebirth these days. i mean, today senator jeff flake takes to the senate floor to excoriate presint trump about his attack on the press, likening the enemy of the people accusation to what stalin did. your book is all about totalitarianism, and these are big word, though. these are big accusations, are they really accurate? it's a fair question, and i think the important thing to understand now and it's never been more relevant is that this is not something that was a one off in the history of humanity and we're not ensured from having a repeat performance and we'll never know how close we came to the abyss, but we are certainly living through a crisis and i think that senator flake was absolutely

beautiful new suit it's simple the world cup next year in russia is going to bring together thirty tonight in the ambassador has brought together the consul's for most of the thirty one along with the greats in the. time of the obama shindig and some of the look we're on the sings. how excited are you to have the world called in your home nation it's been told travelogue songs when i was a kid all remember being told of plays what the f.b.i. shared in the great soviet seems of your early sixty's it's the realize i should have a dream for many paper in russia true to dreams the first one for our people is that we built from this creates eleven stadiums so and they are the. standard people standard it means that after the games everything will be for the people for the young generation so i'm happy about that second of course you know we'll get new friends and since the football is the most popular game in the world i'm sure that there will be some kind of a follow up and that's why i'm so happy how excited or you are as a russian broadcaster for people maybe in england you all russi

russia it was on the lips of world leaders and politicians but this wasn't always the case this was obama's analysis of the country back in twenty fourteen russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors not out of strength but out of weakness regional power weakness well that was the past in the last year we've seen russia propelled to be the greatest threat on the planet in the words of the former f.b.i. chief what kind of threat do you believe russia presents to our democratic process given what you know about russia's behavior of late. 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 furt

trump's handling of robert mueller's russia probe once again front and center. all as he makes his sales pitch to the world, tonight on "washington week." president trump: very excited. robert: president trump's debut at a global summit is overshadowed by bombshell reports that he demanded the firing of special counsel robert mueller. president trump: fake news, folks. robert: one of the president's confidante's, news max c.e.o. chris ruddy, told the "pbs newshour" last june, that mr. trump was actively considering firing mueller. >> i think he's considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. i think he's weighing that option. robert: and there are new reports that at least 20 current and former white house staffers have spoken with mueller's team. it all comes as the senate intelligence committee prepares to release transcripts of interviews with donald trump jr. and jared kushner. some republican critics of the russia probe are raising questions about the integrity of the f.b.i. the democratic response to reports of a secret club of anti-trump agents -- >> paranoia, delusio

f.b.i. staffers linked to the trump of russia propane have gone missing one of the agents is peter struck he oversaw the investigation into alleged russian interference now he was also part of robert muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa paige a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your mom just the way you are because your mom to protect the country from that man. trying it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way. these text messages proved that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. described the dates last misconfigurat

hardtalk, i'm sarah montague. russia is calling on the eu to stump up billions of dollars to help rebuild syria. i am in brussels to speak to russia's representative to the eu, vladimir chizhov. he said that if the eu doesn't pay, then they will bear the responsibility for that. but russian planes are still destroying parts of syria and rather than support the peace talks at the united nations, russia has set up their own parallel talks. so what responsibility does it have to end the war in syria? vladimir chizhov, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. what do you mean when you say that if the eu don't pay for the reconstruction of syria or contribute to it, they will bear the responsibility for that? well, the reconstruction of syria, after the extensive damage that has been inflicted on that country during over six years of war, is, in my view, the responsibility of the whole international community, including, of course, the european union. now, the european union has been declaring a number of times its willingness to contribute to resettlement in syria, so that would be one of the

investigating whether that may be linked to russia. the reporter who broke that story will join us here live tonight. also, over the last few days, we have been somewhat uncomfortably rounding up the new flurry of reporting happening around women who claim to have had sexual relationships with president donald trump during his current marriage. the women that said they had affairs or sexual contact with him during his marriage. several of these women were reportedly paid significant sums of money right before the 2016 presidential election in an of the to stop them from talking about those alleged sexual relationships. now, whether or not you care about the president's sexual behavior or marital fidelity, once people are being paid off immediately before elections to keep quiet about specific stories so as to not have those stories influence the election, that can be potentially a whole new type of legal scandal, separate and apart from any alleged sexual behavior. if these payments were made, what is particularly important is to know the source of those funds, where did the money come

troops who helped get rid of i still was control of this area of syria neither russia nor syria are happy about the announcement but turkey feels particularly threatened it has violent to quote unquote strangle the force before it's born and it's with that aim that turkey launched the offensive on saturday first targeting the city of offering turkish ground troops crossed into the district on sunday after night of ass riots and artillery fire three in is a stronghold for the syrian codas group the white b.g. wish turkey considers a terrorist organization that's because of his alleged ties to the p.k. k. a kurdish group fighting for autonomy in turkey. and took his presence has the next targets will be members of the syrian city recover from ice into thousand and sixteen by a kurdish led force also backed by the u.s. but opposed by turkey stephanie decker has more from the turkey syria border. shortly before sunset on saturday turkey launched its air campaign on africa in turkish officials had said all week that the operation was imminent. much of the president. spoke just a few hours befo