well you know and it's roughly around fifteen hundred people who have gathered here in central moscow most of them are supporters of extent of the prominent russian opposition figure what is happening here right now is the police are trying to clear out the streets mostly they're focusing on the driveway so basically to clear out the people from driveways so that the traffic so that the traffic could move through this is the latest we've seen a few people being detained apparently for blocking the cars for basically for trying to block off the road so this is what's going on here right now and the police are constantly moving it's a bit hectic that kind of trying to break up the crowd into smaller pieces into smaller chunks of groups of people and then they're kind of dispersing them from the main venue where alexina volley was trying to gather his supporters out but what's the reason behind that it wasn't because the rally location had not been agreed previously with city officials or what. or well indeed. that the that the rally was supposed to take place here where it is right now

and while moscow also once the sea ten wins. decrease here on the peninsula but really it's about trying to have influence once again in the region. and you know in an effort to have that influence chase and we have these reports coming in today that last profits apparently raised the issue of international sanctions against north korea while and qiang today what is the message there from moscow. russia wants north korea open for business russia has always had economic interests with north korea whether it be sharing ports the cold trade other mineral resources russia once the developments far east and having the better economic relations with north korea is central to that so right laughter all has reportedly said today in pyongyang that peace on the peninsula denuclearization can't be accomplished without sanctions being lifted but really i think that just reflects moscow zone economic interests in north korea and we have to mention of course this means that it comes amid a flurry of diplomacy that is centering on his plans fo

let's bring indeed obvious emily sure what has been at one of the protests in russia's capital moscow and really good to see you let's go back to say what was the the atmosphere there at the protests today. well the atmosphere i would say was was tense from the beginning even as the demonstrators assembled on pushkin square in the center of moscow there were actually putin supporters waiting for them who basically started a shouting match with them they were shouting for putin and the demonstrators assembling there were shouting for russia without putin and were shouting against putin and soon after that the arrests started there were groups of riot police out in force basically grabbing people out of the crowd and putting them into police vans now there was some defiance among the protesters as well after the police cleared the square some of them kind of returned to the square and kept assembling around the pushkin monument on the on the center at the center of the square as police kept arresting them as well now police here say that three hundred people were arrested just in moscow

city reportedly gunned down today he's turned out alive and well at a news conference bring kiev and moscow for reaction. and also coming up fans at first you don't succeed try try again at least populists are taking another shot at forming a government the five star movement exploring new possibilities to break out of it lee's political deadlock and mexico is getting ready to make waves at the world cup we take a look at how germany's group rivals are shaping up and how rafael benítez could be making history. it's great to have you along everyone always start our broadcast with a stunning twist in a story that we've been reporting on all day a well known russian journalist who ukrainian authorities claimed was shot and killed in the capital kiev yesterday showed up alive and well at a press conference in the ukrainian capital kiev ok but checco appeared with the head of ukraine's security services who said the death had been. faked as part of a special operation to preempt a real plot to murder the journalist. all right want to bring in correspondent emily sure when in the russian capital

suddenly around moscow these days you've been seeing a lot of the parade paraphernalia of the streets are all set up there adorned with so and so bits of beauty and security is high as well but what we've noticed certainly living in moscow is i've noticed an awful lot of people coming from the regions outside moscow and even far far away from the russian capital all coming into town here to enjoy the festivities to watch some of a parade here and also to enjoy the inauguration of the russian president here as we continue to show these live pictures here it's the first time your first time here to witness this event and what a beautiful day it is peter yeah i brought students here last year for a victory day commemorations and it was snowing so they kind. of start you know the weather has certainly been a bit strange that i mean last summer we didn't really have a summer this year it seems like we have a very early start to it and here comes the russian president vladimir putin officially getting on to that red carpet to work his way through tuesday. as well is quite an iconic view her

and the economic affairs minister visited moscow as well so this is a short meeting but there's a lot on the agenda politically and economically the two leaders are going to be discussing syria and ukraine the conflicts there but there will be a particular particular focus on iran after the u.s. left the iran nuclear deal last week both russia and germany are trying to salvage that deal and just at the beginning of the week the iranian foreign minister was in moscow as well to discuss potentially saving that deal and keeping it going without the u.s. and also german and russian leaders will be discussing most likely the north stream to project the economic affairs minister was in moscow last week kind of preparing for that he is trying to make a deal with the with the russian and the ukrainian side because ukraine is worried about its transit fees after all that gas pipeline is going directly is planned to go to go directly from russia to germany through the baltic sea so we may see some movement on an agreement on the hugely important economic deal as well just energy policy and econ

from moscow so far. well today on the sidelines of the st petersburg economic forum as you mentioned president vladimir putin denied the accusations when he was asked about whether it was a russian rocket that shot down the mh seventeen he said no of course not and we also saw a statement by the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov who said that he spoke to his dutch counterpart and that he felt that the dutch side actually presented absolutely no facts proving that russia was behind the downing of the mh seventeen and now russia has really been kind of questioning the evidence presented by the joint investigation. team yesterday they also have been saying that the investigation itself is biased they even presented an alternative version of what could have happened the defense ministry said that the the the air excuse me the anti aircraft system that was used to down the plane couldn't have been russian because it was too old and wouldn't have complied with with security conditions in the russian army

was also just arrested here in moscow now this protest in the center of moscow was not authorized officially by the city authours these protests are taking place across the country as well in. ninety cities and some of those protests were authorized but there were arrests across the country today and not that novelli has been detained what will happen to him will the rallies continue. will people still are here out on the streets and i think their their message here and not by nice messages well is that. well the motto of the protest is that he is not our czar that's the motto i had of putin's inauguration on monday he says look at putin can't rule us like a king that was his magic message in a video that he recorded and posted on you tube ahead of these protests and really the protestors here want to show that yes putin was elected with a huge majority but there are some people who are against his policies and against him and they say that they have come out to fight for their rights to be citizens as it were they want to fight for the for freedom of speech for free media and for free inter

a sea of people sweeps through moscow as they take part in the immortal regiment march remembering relatives who died fighting in the great pantry or sink or. the big. perhaps on the calendar and this country is making sheer cry at the same time. it was tanks and troops that rolled over red square in the annual military parade marking the defeat of nazi germany in one nine hundred forty five. days a very personal day for many in russia and beyond. the memory of people who fought in the war. hello there well can you watching r.t. international this wednesday the ninth of may where it's just gone six o'clock in the evening here in moscow russia has been celebrating victory day marking the defeat of nazi germany it is the seventy third anniversary of the end of the great patriotic war as it's known here in russia which claimed the lives of more than twenty six million soviet people. well there is hardly a family in russia that wasn't affected by the war in most everybody has relatives who fought the nazis and in their honor a special march known as the immortal regiment is held every year corre

project we would like to respectfully invite you to moscow for a working visit." oh. the meeting would be to tour potential plots of land for the potential tower, to have round table discussions and coordinate a follow-up visit by mr. trump himself. the same day this letter was sent michael cohen's partner on the moscow project, trump associate and convicted felon and fbi informant felix sater, he "asked michael cohen for travel dates for both mr. cohen and mr. trump." mr. cohen wrote back, "will do." this new reporting from buzzfeed news as well as a new report from yahoo news reveals that negotiations and planning for the trump tower moscow project actually went on much further into the trump presidential campaign than we knew. they told us it was dead in january of 2016, but in may 2016 as trump was dispatching ted cruz in the republican primary felix sater and michael cohen were texting each other about plans for michael cohen and donald trump to visit moscow and cement this deal. cohen wrote, "my trip before cleveland, trump once he becomes the nominee, after

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are live pictures from central moscow. it was tanks and troops that rolled over red square in a spectacular military parade marking the defeat of nazi germany in one nine hundred forty five. but i welcome you with r.t. international this wednesday the ninth of may just gone three o'clock here in moscow now russia is celebrating victory day marking the defeat of nazi germany it is the seventy third anniversary of the end of the great patriotic war in which over twenty six million soviet lives were lost. well there's hardly a family in russia that wasn't affected by the war almost everybody has grandparents aunts uncles or other relatives too who fought against the nazis and in their honor a special march of the so-called immortal regiment is being held it's and it's become an annual tradition and it's under way in moscow at the moment to you and i think we can go now to it daniel hawkins he's outside the kremlin forest where the mortar regiment is passing i think or at least very shortly down but just tell us what's happeni

almost abrasions are being held across russia the parade in moscow's red square has just wrapped up and our team was in the heart of the action daniel hoare kinzer is just outside of the kremlin and he's joined by were received say who witnessed the action in red square guys it's been great having your play by play throughout the morning take us through the action. well it's certainly been an action packed day here near red square nicky may have had the noisiest season now certainly with the columns of armored vehicles driving past laurie though himself pops up to one of the best seats on red square he joins me now to give us some a taste of what it was like right in the thick of the action will read you were on but square the next book from the next i'm also leaving a useful to fly one of the columns coming past what was the must feel like that the atmosphere was topical of course at first your your honoring those who lost their lives in the great patriotic war seventy three years ago to the day your honoring the families of course the wall affected by their great loss but of course al

emily short one in moscow thank you. and after a short break monica johns has the business view of the iran and nuclear deal in the meantime thank you so much for watching i'm sorry kelly as you say. look blessing. and a curse. are supposed nature and in this scandal. monsoons the tropical jungle first should much sooner. or later the the sooner.

emily sure went for us in moscow thank you very much for your reporting. the u.s. space and it's a nasa has launched its latest probe to mars a powerful atlas five rocket is propelling the mars insite lander to the planet's surface as we speak the journey is expected to take six months upon arrival the pro will be looking deep under the planet's crust for clues about how it was formed with. the inside lander will be the first to examine the internal structure of the planet mars scientists have been eager to gather data on the red planet's interior for decades. we know a lot about the surface of mars we know a lot about its atmosphere and even about its saw on a spear but we don't know very much about what goes on a mile below the surface much less two thousand miles below the surface down to the center this heat probe should be able to fill in some of those gaps developed by scientists at the german aerospace center it will measure the temperature of individual underground layers and determine how efficiently these layers conducts heat to do this the probe will hav

if mr trump if president did mean business if he was really going to deliver a strike against moscow the year. war there sitting you clear of all but a mess of war was the most likely outcome there for any kind of reduction. intention is a good news for russia however talking about a possible negotiation for moscow well until recently it would be a good idea to have cells and summit or say assignments be to be in north korean leaders and u.s. president or western leaders it would be a good idea to have them in russia maybe there's a city in moscow where you are still because of on the full seated tour there you can be sure or maybe in my native petersburg why not maybe not moscow but not in our set is right now russian issue is very big in the united states probably it has never been the case that russia attracted so much and favorable attention well since maybe as a nine hundred fifty years since their anticommunist fear and the communist scare saw it to be probably a good idea if russia is too much involved in this negotiations not now in the long run yes but now it's probably safe

a very good morning to you from all of our team here in moscow you're watching the weekly and around the pool the latest news on the big stories that have shaped the week. now this week has seen some major developments in the ongoing investigation into the script poisoning case and nato ally admitted it had produced a lot which talk like substance as recently as last year and then the un's chemical watchdog backtracked on whether on previous claims about the nerve agent. picks up the story criminal investigations usually work towards conclusions as new information and facts come to light but with the screwball case it all seems a bit backwards and feels like those pesky details are being ignored take for example the embarrassing but significant slip up we heard this week from the chief of the international chemical weapons watchdog the research activities or protection you would need for instance five to ten grams of but even in seoul is free it looks like they may have used more than that without knowing the exact quantity i'm told it may be fifty one hundred grams of say which goes

moscow has rejected these claims. and the pristine beaches of mine in thailand were made famous by the hollywood movie the beach now tired of parties banning visitors often masters of takes on the beauty spot. we start with some breaking news from the world of sports riyadh madrid cote citizens of don has announced he's stepping down the announcement has taken a footballer by complete surprise this comes just days after. their third. champions league title the frenchman who was the first coach to achieve that feat but only finished third in the spanish league. he told a press conference that it was his own decision and club president florentine of perez has said it came as a complete surprise to him. three one laughed fastidious chap in. the montessori litany of drawing mock. sports desk welcome are a complete bombshell in the world of football i was surprised as i have yes it's come out of the blue i mean if they'd lost that game on saturday there was a risk he would have been sacked because they only finished third

beautiful color shot here on the red carpet the gilded halls in moscow and so obviously a lot. joining a lot of people there who showed up to gradually the president on his next term putin is sixty five years old this is the fourth time that he's being sworn in again as president he's been in power already for eighteen years having sat out one term as president and serving then as prime minister until he could come back in he's a very controversial figure but powerful nonetheless forbes magazine has named him the most powerful person for the past four years. running. but to me putin rising to the podium to begin the official ceremony swearing him in for the fourth time as president of russia he will take the helm for another six year term. let's cross over to our correspondent in moscow emily share when she's standing by there for us watching the ceremony live with those of course i believe the ceremony does seem spectacular enough but i'm told it's subdued compared to putin's third inauguration six years ago why. well as you say there was of course all this pomp during the cer

and i only showed up just to do the trump moscow deal. i don't believe so, but i don't -- i wasn't there, and i don't know. i don't believe so but if you showed me proof that it happened, i certainly would take a look at it and say of course. >> one of the president always says is i got no deals in russia. we know that's true. he doesn't have deals in russia. the question everybody wants to know is is there russian money in his properties, right? the question is, was russian money directed into his properties? was it money that passed through different llcs? do you know the answer to that? >> to his properties? >> yeah. >> i have an assumption about that. for anyone in the russian government to pass money through to the trump organization through his properties, which had to have happened way before the election, i doubt anyone has a crystal ball and truly believed that one day this developer is going to be the president of the united states, so let's start funneling money to him. >> but they did take an interest in him. >> who? >> the ru

that was correspondent emily short on reporting from moscow there the u.s. space agency nasa has launched its latest probe to mars a powerful atlas five rocket is propelling the mars insite lander to the planet's surface as we speak the journey is expected to take six months upon arrival the probe will be sent deep under the planet's cross for clues about how it formed the launch is to years late due to equipment problems the delay also ramped up project cost for more than eight hundred million dollars the solar and battery powered lander is designed to operate for twenty six earth months which is just one mars year. the inside lander will be the first to examine the internal structure of the planet mars scientists have been eager to gather data on the red planet's interior for decades. we know a lot about the surface of mars we know a lot about its atmosphere and even about its so i ought to spear but we don't know very much about what goes on a mile below the surface much less two thousand miles below the surface down to the center of this heat probe shoul

emily what is around looking for today in moscow. well the iranian foreign and foreign minister has been making a tour of you know all the signatories of this deal and today he's in moscow meeting with the foreign minister lavrov from the beginning russia has wanted to salvage this deal and the foreign minister here lover of made that very clear again today he said that they wanted to save the deal and he also said that the u.s. withdrawal from the deal created a crisis situation and iran is likely to be looking for assurances from moscow after all moscow has been working with terror closely in syria they've been the two countries have been fighting on the same side in the war they've been fighting to support the syrian government there in that conflict and there have been frequent meetings last year as well between the two foreign ministers so there's likely to be a fair amount of trust between the two countries we saw a rather warm handshake between lover of and zarif today and of course this is an opportunity as well for moscow to

this is out international news live at one am from moscow with me kevin and well welcome to this thirty minute news update that first state t.v. in north korea is reporting that the country's canceled wednesday's high level talks with the south the decision is said to have been taken in response to seoul carrying out joint military drills with the united states similar car as more. this definitely comes as a blow considering the storage developments we've seen recently but in addition to canceling tomorrow's summit north korea is reported to have threatened to cancel its highly anticipated meeting with trump that's scheduled for june twelfth in singapore now this is all due to washington's military drills with soul which is always been a topic of discussion but it seems that the d.p. r. k. has finally decided to put its foot down. i. i. i so the d.p. r. k. has made it clear that these joint drills there and its security describing it as a rehearsal for invasion and many view these fears as legitimate given the history of countries that have willingly surrendered their w m d's but this w

were at the protest in moscow what's the atmosphere like still there. well miles the protesters are basically destroyed today there were a large crowd of protesters on pushkin square which i'm at now and from the beginning the atmosphere was rather confronted there were several programmer groups at pushkin square even as the protesters began to gather and they were shouting favor of putin kind of trying to provoke perhaps the protesters who were shouting back and shouting that. our daughter and they were shouting for a russia without putin but very quickly the arrest began and there were a riot police at the scene now we're getting reports that over one thousand people were arrested across the protests across russia and we're seeing these pictures a fully sort of roughing up protesters and we saw pictures earlier of the family being detained how did that influence the protests or was it mostly expected. my it was basically expected that he would be arrested this is the first time that the find me has been arrested at opposition protests that he's said h

international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate. russia has been celebrating victory day marking the defeat of nazi germany in world war two it's the seventy third anniversary of the end of what russians call the great patriotic war which claimed the lives of almost twenty seven million soviet people. the victory day celebrations culminated with nationwide file it displays some one of the biggest was in moscow and on the managed to find a perfect view. thousands of fire trucks and lighting up this guys tonight sent across and several and spots across more is such as can victory park fireworks will be illuminating the night skies tomorrow and of the seventy fifth anniversary celebrations it's now down the level in the crowd so you can see people wearing symbols of victory day such as this st george's print in a sign a member in some respects and say when people carrying the red carnations when a name and down if it hits sites across send most of us well but now people will be flocking to try to get the best seats in the house and try

is one fifteen am here in moscow thanks watching coming up the u.s. is calling on russia to admit responsibility for the downing of flight m h seventeen over eastern ukraine in twenty fourteen will bring their reaction to that request after the break. twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest. but there was one more question and by the way it's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and. you have to be the center of the. great . you are the rock at the back nobody gets to you we need you to. go. alone. and i'm really happy to join the. meet the special one. meet. the latest edition of make up as we go. thousands palestinians gathered along the gaza border on friday in what is the eight week avanti occupation protest known as the great march of return more than a hundred protesters have been killed by israeli forces since they began. following the latest in gaza. what. you are. since the beginning of the great march of return on the thirtieth of marked a police and nine thousand palestinian protesters have

thousands more demonstrated in other cities across russia there are five or moscow's pushkin square they were met by a small group with very different values. and describing themselves as patriots they want to prevent a ukraine stop arising in russia just mad we have currently being officially ruled by a constitution that was written for us by american specialists well under foreign rule not everyone here is no valma supporters people came here because they see that things are bad in the country but they don't understand why so and they were told by some people that it is putin to be blamed in everything people can't figure out such things for themselves their tempers started to rise at that point the police moved in. so they were arrested began in other parts of russia i do want to say now that starting here in moscow was the business of just grabbed a young guy out of the crowd it looked like she was crying so dragging her off to the police wagon. was. the numbers of detentions take top words protest after protest i was dragged away so he too was a man who calls this demonstration

and i only showed up just to do the trump moscow deal. i don't believe so, but i wasn't there, and i don't know. and if i don't believe so, but if you showed me proof that it happened, i would certainly take a look at it, of course. >> one of the things the president says i got no deals in russia. and that's true. he doesn't have deals in russia. no building bearing his name. the question everyone wants to know, is there russian money in his properties, right? the question is was russian money directed into his properties? was it money that passed through different llcs? do you know the answer to that? >> to his properties? >> yeah. >> i have an assumption about that. for anyone in russian government to pass money through to the trump organization through his properties which had to have happened way before the election, i doubt anyone has a crystal ball and truly believed that one day this developer is going to be the president of the united states, so let's start funneling money to him. >> but they did take an interest in him. >> who? >

a new foreign minister moscow's taking a tougher approach with moscow than its predecessor and in spite of seeing eye to eye with russia on keeping the iran nuclear deal alive was also had plenty to criticise. german russian relations have long been fraught that tension was on display during the german foreign minister's visit to moscow i called ma slater wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier and met his counterpart sergey lavrov their encounter was far from warm given the west's recent accusations that russia is behind the nerve agent attack on a former russian double agent and a cyber attack on the german foreign office. i believe that an open and honest dialogue is the key to a solid partnership we have to be able to figure out if we are still playing by the same rules i think. germany and russia aren't at odds on all fronts both want to salvage the nuclear deal with iran fearing the potential instability its collapse could bring. the agreement is vital for regional stability stopping the special most destruction it's important to the signatures that deal with the situation we're

we will go live to moscow and talk to steve rosenberg. what are people saying about this turn of events today? there is total surprise here. the russian foreign ministry has said that it is glad that arkady babchenko is alive, but they said the ukrainian authorities used this story from propaganda. the head of the foreign affairs committee, the upper house of the russian parliament, he said this was a crazy provocation by the ukrainian authorities. and the chief editor of the newspaper where mr babchenko once worked, he said this was a provocation not only against russia but a provocation against the journalistic community in general. and just one thought here on how this affects the kind of way that people are seeing relations between moscow and kiev. what is your reading of the kind of dynamics there today? i don't think that will affect the moscow/ kiev relationship. it is already bad, there is no sign of it getting better. but this bizarre twist doesn't really come close to describing what we saw today. arkady babchenko reported dead

it's roughly around fifteen hundred people who have gathered here in central moscow most of them are supporters of exiting a volley of a prominent russian opposition figure the police are trying to clear out the streets mostly they're focusing on the driveway so basically to clear out the people from driveways so that the traffic so that the traffic could move through this is the latest we've seen a few people being detained apparently for blocking the cars for basically for trying to block off the road so this is what's going on here right now and the police are constantly moving it's a bit hectic back to kind of trying to break up the crowd into smaller pieces into smaller chunks of groups of people and then they're kind of dispersing of them from the main venue where alexina volley was trying to gather his supporters out election evolving system that the that the rally was supposed to take place here where it is right now the authorities of moscow offered him a different location literally a few hundred meters away from here also central moscow at that time when that decision was

family sure when in moscow thank you. bill. byron munich coach has ruled man will neuer out of the club's last two games of the season casting further doubt on the goalkeepers fitness for the upcoming world cup in russia neuer is considered one of the world's best goalkeepers and is the germany captain but he hasn't played since fracturing his foot last september speaking at last night's fire and kit launch neuer admitted time was running out for him to recover before the showpiece tournament gets underway in june as another german goalkeeper liverpool's a loris carrying us has been named as the german football ambassador for twenty eighteen coaches auto fister and gareth engels were also recognised for their sporting and social commitments abroad at the ceremony in berlin last night. in germany he's known by only a handful of football fanatics. but in japan he's a big name get angles assistant coach at japanese club. he's been coaching at japan's biggest club since the early eighty's. he also enjoyed a spell as the coach of th

a sea of people have swept through moscow taking part in the immortal regiment march remembering relatives who died fighting what russians call the great patriotic. bucks. the cia veteran is thrown out of the confirmation hearing for donald trump's pick as the new agency chief mick protests over her alleged involvement in torturing prisoners. and protesters burn u.s. flags on the streets of tehran after donald trump decides to withdraw from the arabian new clear deal. and take on for you know watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. russia has been celebrating victory day marking the defeat of nazi germany in world war two it's the seventy third anniversary of the end of what russians call the great patriotic war which claimed the lives of almost twenty seven million soviet people. the victory day celebrations culminated with a night nationwide firework displays one of the biggest was in moscow. ceci managed to find a perfect feat. thousands of fire pics and lighting up this guy's tonight sent across and several spots across more such as gold in vi

in their own a special monch known as the a move to regiment is held every year it's on the way in moscow right now and we can cross one of our correspondents who is in the thick of it so you are trying to i think is that in amongst the march and also on the left that we have done who can say let's start with india and i think even more king for something like ninety minutes now i think we can could be inside the but just sum up what's it been like . andy have you ever experienced what it feels like to be part of a crowd of almost one million people well if you haven't and i bet most of our viewers haven't i can tell you that this as a feeling that makes your heart so it is truly incredible and i mean there are just so many people here and that's the reason why we have to stand still every now and then because there are few bottlenecks on the way and the people keep calm and come in walking and walking while last year it was estimated that about seven hundred thousand people took part but it was a very cold day i remember the temperatures went as low as zero degrees and today it is a beau

today buzzfeed news revealed michael cohen's effort to develop a trump tower over in moscow during the election year went on far longer than he publicly acknowledged extending into the spring of 2016. most damning is that "even before the appointment of mueller as special counsel in may of 2017, fbi agents investigating russia's interference in the election learned that michael cohen was in frequent contact with foreign individuals about trump moscow and that some of these individuals had knowledge of or played a role in 2016 election meddling. it's all connected according to two fbi agents." in may of 2016, michael cohen along with his partner felix sater were planning to send trump to moscow. "they discussed when in the presidential campaign trump should take the extraordinary step of flying to a country at odds with the united states in order to negotiate a major business deal." sater told buzzfeed cohen was also prepared to make a separate trip to moscow and that planning for that trip continued through june of 2016 when cohen suddenly demurred. nbc news has not verified buzzfeed's

force in central moscow well one german family that celebrated moscow today has a special story because during the course of the war their grandfather defected to the soviet side them risked his life a multiple occasions trying to persuade the germans to join the russians. he was always a pacifist against the war and never wanted to join the v.a. max but he had to and from the very start of his juicy he was always looking for an opportunity to join the other side that he knew from the very beginning that the real aggressor was the v.m. act not the red army. we visited the mud done it this camp immediately after the liberation criminals who are in chimneys corpses pose of shoes we were full of designed to fight the nazis. in us and we would read about it in the german media unfortunately for the young generation this holiday does not matter much. an amazing story now as we said people are now taking part in the motor regiment march through moscow at the moment but earlier in the day it was the military's turn to pay its respects and also show off its might as the capitol held its annual

plans to deliver patriot missile shield to pull and have been interpreted in moscow as part of a plot to surround russia let's now bring in our guests joining us from london olivier guitar managing director of global strat a geopolitical risk and security consultancy firm in moscow dimitri babich a political analyst at russia profile magazine and in washington d.c. lawrence korb former u.s. as says that secretary of defense gentlemen welcome to the program mr korb let me start with you so we don't assume now that the thinking in washington is that the fight against i sell and to national terrorism is not a priority anymore and rather that russia is a real threat. a sickly as i know richard the chief of naval operations back in here are a great power competition it doesn't mean they're dealing with threats like isis in the middle east have gone away but what it means is they're not going to get as high a priority as we began our build on remember this year our defense budget basically went from six hundred billion to seven hundred billion dollars and what they're saying is this extra m

has even gone as far as to suggest that this summit may take place in moscow dad off for i think was downplayed later on in the kremlin but i think it's still on the table do you think there is any chance of either. russia or china stepping into the void and how being a good chunk of ministration to secure these deal for the benefit of global security i'm very i'm we have to tread very carefully here not see you invite any accusations of collusion but at the end of the day i think we would all agree that you know the peace on the korean peninsula is in the best interest of humanity isn't it not only humanity her marriage is something abstract about as i have argued just a few minutes ago. in korean peninsula is an interest of russia because russian interests and for basically cheney a centrist a very simple cost russia warm they'd be the second russia of one's status quo sought russia of once did it very easy. if mr trump if president did mean business if he was really going to deliver a strike against moscow here a messy war not their city yukio war but a mess of war was the most li

emily show one live at the protests for us in moscow thank you very much. and we'll bring you the updates coming from hawaii in a moment but first here are some of the other stories making news around the world voters in lebanon are gearing up for their first parliamentary election in almost a decade hopes are high that the vote on sunday will and prolong political gridlock but forming a government could take months or even longer in part due to the country's complex party system. thousands of people on the streets of paris to protest government policies marking a year since president obama calls election his critics say his economic and social reforms favor the wealthy and corporations by abolishing some worker protections and increasing police powers smaller rallies also took place in toulouse and bordeaux. north korea has adjusted its time zone by half an hour to match that of south korea it's the latest in a series of steps aimed at thaw in relations between the two countries but some koreans remain wary of the thought police shut down activists who tri

the valley was carried away as he attended a rally against president vladimir putin in the capital moscow the protests come just two days ahead of putin's immigration for a force term opponents of united under a slogan he's not ours song with her into putin's eight years in power well i'll just say resurrect chalons is live for us in moscow as so first of all ray tell us a little bit about the situation there and what the scale of the demonstrations was exactly and how widespread they were. while it's always difficult to tell exactly how many people have showed up at these protests because you get different tommies from different organizations the police always undervalue and so often the protestors themselves tend to overvalue but certainly this is like many of these previous demonstrations countrywide events that has brought certainly thousands and thousands of russians out into the streets not just in moscow st petersburg but in cities stretching across this whole country now in terms of detentions well there's an independent monitoring organization called the info and has all of six p