. everybody all tourists from russia and other countries are very welcome in georgia and i think it's very positive that we have a good trade relations and lots of people are arriving in georgia but it's not enough if this is good but this is. from my point of view it's very important to me because this relation is sustainable and for that we need to speak . i mean politicians we need to discuss the problems which are creating might create some problems is the future to avoid these problems now from a strategic point of view russia is very interested in having friendly relations with its neighbors in particular ukraine because of its size in georgia because of its north caucasus location but obviously it hasn't been able to achieve that how much of it is russia's fault and how much of it is not russia's fold the fact that this very troubled relationship that it has been both countries you know first of all we have to take into account that we are living in a very difficult time when soviet empire had been collapsed and. everything have been changed relations between the people. let's say v

very little in the way of south first selection to what extent this insistence on portraying russia as really ugly is predicted on the need of the west to see the south as invariably good despite all its recent policy blunders yes i think you're absolutely right. it's very important for the west and i laid however you define that military diplomatic political media that. believe in their own objectivity they have to believe in it but it's not just objectivity it's some sort of eternal goodness. the other side being always in the wrong well yes although i'm not sure that i very many people would talk about being good and evil i mean that's a that's a moral concept in the west that it's become a many many of these speeches are forced implications you constantly hear these theme of moral superiority on this drawing you know making i think this is a recurring theme in many of the present obama statements and in many of the statements by british politicians that they could be no moral equivalency between for example russia and the west where in fact why would you even think about equatin

on three of them. it's a come as no surprise that russia has been cheating on his treaties. vladimir putin's government has annexed crimea, interfered with elections, used chemical weapons and reportedly hacked u.s. utilities. given that record, he is not likely to let the commitments get in his way either. the question we need to ask is -- what are we going to do? some argue we should walk away from the inf treaty because russia has been in blatant violation for several years. something that is exactly what putin hopes for. the last time we deployed range missiles to west germany in 1983, a million people protested. that is the kind of division russian operators are designed to exploit. meeting, it isur crucial we remain unified and defense and deterrence issues. we areopen skies treaty, at an impasse with russians. we have not had a flight all year. we can live without that, but it hurts that 32 other countries do not have the same resources we do. even with new start, which has succeeded in its objectives so far. we should be realistic about our expectations where we will be in ru

. and the stories that shapes the week the world on today p. agency reinstates russia's antidrug body paving the way for bands after late to return to the global stage. the u.k.'s crankset negotiation stalled as the rejects to raise a maize proposal the substance to trade for economy corporation will not work at this late stage in the negotiation it is not acceptable to simply reject the other side's proposals without a detailed explanation and come to its. hello and welcome to the weekly on our teens national look back on the top stories to shape the week. russia's defense ministry has given the details timeline of the downing of an aircraft in syria in a statesman's to the media the ministry explained why it holds israel responsible for monday's tragedy in which fifteen russian service personnel died. at twenty thirty one on september nineteenth the russian survey aircraft over twenty started its patrol mission in a deescalation zone and in syria's northwest around the same time four israeli f. sixteen fighter jets left israel's space they flew over neutral waters of the mediterrane

at the atlantic council that the russia's propaganda effort in the putin administration's use of the rt television network. the panel includes the plaintiff and her attorney in a law -- [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> afternoon. welcome to the atlantic council and welcome to this afternoon's session on putin's propaganda pushing back against kremlin run television. my name is lauren van meter and i'm a senior fellow at the atlantic will your ratio center. i will be moderating today's event here before we go any further, and the event is being treated at russia factor -- # russia factor. we welcome all of you to join in the conversation via twitter. i would like to make introductions to our panel. .. to disseminate information. you protection. also with the justice foundation. we were going to session this afternoon we have a short video and then a panel discussion for 40 minutes and then you will open to question so shall we see the video? >> this video is a small clip of those programs in russian. which are the subject of the defamation lawsuit and in the

stories that shapes the week the world's on sedating agency reinstates russia's anti drugs body paving the way from found a place to return to the global stage. the u.k. strikes at negotiation stalled as the e.u. rejects to resume a's proposals to sub just to train work for the moment corporations will not work at this late stage in the negotiations it is not acceptable to simply reject the other side's proposals without a detailed explanation and come to. allow and welcome to the weekly and often international iran top of the week's top stories. russia's defense ministry has given a detailed timeline of the downing of an ad in syria and a statement to the media the ministry explained why it holds israel responsible for monday's tragedy in which fifteen russian service personnel died. that's when she said she was on september nineteenth the russians crossed it which when she said. that is patrol mission in a deescalation zone and in syria's northwest around the same time four israeli f. sixteen fighter jets left israel's space they flew over neutral waters of the mediterranean a

stories that shaped the week the world anti-doping agency states russia's anti-drug body a major step toward seeing many of the country's top athletes back competing on the world stage. looking more like a no deal to negotiations. with the bloc rejects to reserve may's economic plan. just to train work for corporations. at this late stage in the negotiations it is not acceptable to simply reject the other side's proposals without explanation and counter places. this is the weekly let me call it a look at the biggest stories covered right here over the past seven days and also the weekend's developments too that's where we start in fact russia's defense ministry says israel bears responsibility for the downing of a russian aircraft off syria's coast this week which killed all fifteen service personnel aboard in a statement to the media the russian military presented a detailed timeline of the incident. at twenty thirty one on september nineteenth the russian survey aircraft it was twenty started its patrol mission in a deescalation zone and in syria's northwest around the same tim

strategic point of view russia is very interested in having friendly relations with its neighbors in particular ukraine because of its size in georgia because of its north caucasus location but obviously it hasn't been able to achieve that how much of it is russia's fault and how much of it is not russia's fall the fact that this very troubled relationship that it has been both countries you know first of all we have to take into account that we are living in a very difficult time when soviet empire have been collapsed and. everything have been changed relations between the people. let's say very loose which where it just familiar for us so the new live which brought a lot of problems you can see in relations to we. between russia and georgia between the ukraine and russia how much of a percentage is fall of fresh air or georgia you know i think we all make mistakes and surpass the point of my question do you see that just happenstance that happened that's history or do you think that it was encouraged that it was a goal of somebodies policy and yes i don't i mean obviously western f

effectively enforced. russia originally called for this meeting to discuss the implementation of sanctions against north korea. then they evidently changed their mind. but we thought the issue was important enough to bring forward and have a briefing. the united states welcomes the chance to examine the difference between words and deeds. we welcome the opportunity to see whether security council's efforts to eliminate north korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs are being honored and enforced and if not, why. the measures we adopted last year are something the security council should be very proud of. we achieved historic unity implementing historic sanctions. the security council unanimously adopted three major sanction packages creating one of the most restrictive sanctions regimes in history. together, we have also have plummeted sanctions against dozens of specific north korean individuals and entities supporting regimes nuclear and ballistic missile programs. pledged a ban on north korean exports and 30% of its imports. all of us thomas to uphold the expulsion of al

event here before we go any further, and the event is being treated at russia factor -- # russia factor. we welcome all of you to join in the conversation via twitter. i would like to make introductions to our panel. .. to disseminate information. you protection. also with the justice foundation. we were going to session this afternoon we have a short video and then a panel discussion for 40 minutes and then you will open to question so shall we see the video? >> this video is a small clip of those programs in russian. which are the subject of the defamation lawsuit and in the federal courts. so the program accused me to be a cia agent who murdered my friend. in 2006. because the cia wanted to tarnish russia. all of this was in the context of the russia topic and a in the name of it of course is to say that the poisonings had nothing to do with russia. so you will see the main person who with his own story to be critical of putin in this case. and then to start working with the russia propaganda. the without further ado. [inaudible] >> no. she did not have cancer. they just kille

point of view we have to discuss these issues and problems with the russia when you have problems you have to discuss and only the people are calling me a suppression politician but was out a dialogue so you are here on your show russia as much as you're willing to talk to russia i want to speak with russia i want to find solution was the russian and georgian no problems i want to go establish friendly relations with russia because i'm sure that this is important for my country let me ask you specifically about friendly relations because the political relationship between the two countries is still very tenuous but this year we have witnessed a significant increase in bilateral trade and in tourism the number of russians visiting your country so far this year has exceeded a million and from what i understand. a quarter more than last year so it seems that when it comes to the people there actually ahead of the politicians in terms of normalizing the ties between our country fortunately yes and of course. everybody all tourists from russia and other countries are very well come in

security advisor john bolton has called russia's plan to send a missile system to syria a significant escalation he wants russia to reconsider the new s. three hundred anti aircraft systems being given to the syrian military but russia says it's about protecting its planes it's just days after one of its mines was actually shot down by an accurate syrian anti-aircraft fire deputy attorney general rob rosenstein is expected to go to a meeting at the white house on thursday according to donald trump's spokeswoman they've been reports in the u.s. that he could be about to lose his job for the son's been overseeing the investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen election. and the president of the moldings has conceded defeat in sunday's presidential election provisional results show he won fifty eight percent of the vote doesn't mean appeared on national t.v. to acknowledge he had lost the rise to his only rival the opposition leader abraham mohammed sunday. three human rights activists jailed in saudi arabia have been granted the right livelihood awa

essentially it's playing a double game targeting russia mostly with its new round of sanctions but also launching a blog that is well which intention is to damage beijing everything revolves around the russia's weapons russia's heavy weapons like the su thirty five fighter jet and the earth's four hundred surface to air missile defense system and so china bought some of those units and now it is also coming under fire for the world beijing let me tell you was not impressed when it found out that it is being dictated some new rules on this arena of arms trade other than fair competition we strongly call on the us to remedy the mystique and cancel the sanctions otherwise the u.s. has to bear the consequences russia has also reacted to this new round of sanctions russia still diplomat sergei lavrov has said that what these acts are doing they essentially are pushing more school towards reducing its dependency on washington and especially on the exchanges in dollar and the u.s. currency has also added that this is something that other countries are learning from these sanctions to lover of

russia and china joining forces against the united states well today their soldiers launched the biggest war games since the end of the soviet union it's not a new military alliance like nato but nato is not convinced tonight the presidents of russia and china eating and drinking together and toasting that old adage the enemy of my enemy is my friend i'm bringing off in berlin this is the day. of the film where our great friend sherman xi jinping and i have just discussed the development of russian chinese relations if. there's any new big this is not the great wall we're in russia a little tiny little. cheerfully china and russia both that the responsibilities of maintaining peace and stability fund virtually commute instead of growing cooperation between our countries and international organizations. we have the same or similar views on international the faster. we can train like this if you want. me it was. also coming up tonight bob woodward's exposé of the trump white house goes on sale but not everybody is buying. it's been said many of the that out but that happen is that

militaries are undertaking joint war games. training exercises russia's largest military drills and the fall of the soviet union is the first time russia has invited china to participate in training drills inside its own borders. unsung suchi has admitted her government could have handled the rangar crisis better suit cheney has been speaking at the world economic forum meeting and how noisy seven hundred thousand trying to muslims have fled a military crackdown in myanmar since august two thousand and seventeen. and israeli forces in the occupied west bank and cleared account for activists beside a bedouin village which is due to be demolished israel's top call to prove the destruction of the village of qana last week. rival factions in south sudan have signed what's being called a final peace deal after months of negotiations the leaders will now have to form a transitional government governance story reports from ethiopia's capital addis ababa the deal the size. another green men aimed at peace in south sudan the last time this leader signed a passion twenty fifteen it collapsed bare

journalism well let's have a look at the new york times the paper catalogs what is called russia gate its conclusion is astounding this and much much more on this edition of process. talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark that he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with sputnik international and we have glenn these and he is a professor at the higher school of economics are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want my always appreciated let's talk about the state of journalism and let's talk about the state of the new york times in our in their recent article the same thing by now we're going to select this night now the plot to subvert an election unraveling the story the russia story so far now just a top. a little it assumes that there was a plot ok ok it's about a ten thousand word article there's one hundred ninety nine paragraphs and paragraphs five we have a president trying to twitter outbursts that this is all a hoax and a witch hunt in the face of

and counter. the world anti-doping agency reinstates russia's anti drugs body a major step toward seeing many of the country's top athletes back competing on the world stage. hello there wherever you're watching this sunday we're bringing you the biggest stories as reported right here on r.t. of the past seven days and today's developments as well and that's where we'll start in fact russia's defense ministry says israel bears full responsibility for the downing of a russian aircraft of syria's coast this week which killed all fifteen service personnel on board in a statement to the media the russian military presented a detailed timeline of the incident concluding that the actions of the israeli air force led to the tragedy. at twenty thirty one on september nineteenth the russian survey aircraft it was twenty started its patrol mission and it deescalation zone in living in syria's northwest around the same time four israeli f. sixteen fighter jets left israel's air space they flew over neutral waters of the mediterranean and took up a combat ready position ninety kilometers from

election unraveling the story the russia story so far not just a title it assumes that there was a plot ok ok it's about a ten thousand word article there's one hundred ninety nine paragraphs and paragraphs five we have a president trying to twitter outbursts that this is all a hoax and a witch hunt in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary have taken a toll on public comprehension and then we go down to after the reader is tortured for many many paragraphs we go to paragraph one seventy eight mr trump's frustrations with the russian investigation is not surprising he is right that no public evidence has emerged showing that his campaign conspired with russia india election interference or accepted russian money mark interesting what happened in between i don't know evidently it's not very important because paragraph one hundred eighty three i think it was contradicts completely paragraph five and the rest is i think that when they sum it up it has trumps the noels which evidently they say there's no evidence of later has taken a toll on public comprehension i.e. the pu

reconcile with either syria or russia have already done that in other provinces the only people left in the diehards. so with the second point i mean depends on who you are and how we treat and how we define core the moderate opposition and one of. the moderation of the opposition it's about whether or not these people are ready to talk and from what i understand there have been several statements by their leaders militant leaders on the ground that i know it's very easy to negotiate they want to as as i said die hard i mean doing this are in conflict we always and every stage and in every year we saw such groups and from his perspective. ninety five percent of those groups are not inclined to negotiate and took her to pursue political process so. i think it would not matter for talk about the summit what matters here is russia turkish relations and their partnership. in the first place russia understands that for turkey it's one of the most important parts and it can't just push it and impose its own wheel on on its partner well i was partially both agree and disagree with you because

the stories that shaped the world anti-doping agency reinstates russia's anti drug body a major step toward seeing many of the country's top athletes back competing on the world stage. and looking more like a no deal negotiations stalled with the e.u. as the clock rejects to reset may's economic. framework for corporations. at this late stage in the negotiation it is not acceptable to simply with the other side's proposed. explanation and counter. hello to you wherever you are watching us and this weekend. we're bringing in the biggest stories of the past seven days as cover right here and also the day's developments that's where we start in fact russia's defense ministry says israel bears full responsibility for the downing of a russian aircraft off syria's coast this week which killed all fifteen service personnel on board in a statement to the media the russian military presented a detailed timeline of the incident concluding that the actions of the israeli air force led to the tragedy. at twenty thirty one on september nineteenth the russian survey aircraft it was twenty started

politicians gathered here have one key challenge, what to do about vladimir putin's russia. my guest today is arkady dvorkovich. now, untilfour guest today is arkady dvorkovich. now, until four months ago, guest today is arkady dvorkovich. now, untilfour months ago, he guest today is arkady dvorkovich. now, until four months ago, he was russia's deputy prime minister. what chanceis russia's deputy prime minister. what chance is there of averting the deepening hostility between russia and the west? arkady dvorkovich, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you've left of the russian governmentjust thank you. you've left of the russian government just a thank you. you've left of the russian governmentjust a few months ago. within that government, you we re ago. within that government, you were always seen as ago. within that government, you were always seen as an ago. within that government, you were always seen as an advocate of a warmer, closer relationship between russia and the west, and yet what we see in so many different theatres, arenas, is a souring relationship. how frustrated are you buy wha

we've witnessed in. russia knows unfortunately firsthand. what world terrorism is is all about we is still are extending a hand to all of the countries and with think that it is our duty to combat this scourge together. and to witness that our proposal to create a broad international coalition to combat international terrorism will madam president. we can see if there is. interest in the event on this of them some time brant iran which is the third summit of the guarantors of the astronaut format therefore would decided to brief the security council of on its main outcomes this event became a major milestone in or restoring peace and ensuring a lasting settlement in the syrian arab republic. the. concluding statement together with. iran in turkish politics were disseminated to in as an official document of the security council. the statements made by the three presidents in the course of the summit and also at the press conference as well as the joint statements made to send a very clear signal to the international community namely that russia iran and turkey are ready to spend maxim

relations between russia and the us it's bad now we pine for what they were backward presidents could talk frankly joke laugh heck even collude for elections bill for my election campaign i urgently need for russia alone of two point five billion dollars i'll check on this with the i.m.f. and with some of our friends and see what can be done those were the days when you could funnel billions to get your pals reelected real friendship right there clinton even helped yeltsin with a heart operation their wives now in the yeltsin and hillary clinton visited each other shopped together unfortunately it wasn't very equal friendship nine hundred ninety six the united states was strong russia was in its knees crime corruption stagnation it seemed to get the rule or end of every deal. it remains a mistake for nato to move eastward nuclear and conventional arms cannot move eastward into new members to the borders of russia i've told you no one is talking about a massive all out accelerated expansion two years later nearly a dozen european states were invited to join nato the czech republic hungry po

world anti-doping agency reinstates russia's anti drugs body a major step toward seeing many of the country's. competing on the world to me. the confirmation hearing for president trumps a green court pick stagnates. with brett proving to be one of america's most divisive. ever. stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment. of well this is the weekly on r t international law and welcome. russia's defense ministry saying the israeli military holds fole responsibility for the dawning of a russian military aircraft in syria on monday which killed all fifteen servicemen on board in a statement to the media the russian military presented a detail timeline of the incident concluding that the actions of the israeli are force led to the tragedy israel has previously blamed dawning on syria iran and hezbollah. looks at how it could affect relations between russia and israel especially considering their previous history. whatever side you ask no one's guilty culpable or liable everyone blames someone else israel holds the assad regime whose military shot down the russian plane f

conflict there is also believe dot dot rapture how to prevent a much bigger conflict between russia and nato that if russia didn't act. moment back in two thousand and fourteen that the nature would continue pushing across its border and there would be no other way to escape that direct confrontation how much do you crave at that oh very much so i mean there was a sort of a rehearsal for crimea some years beforehand and in georgia of course went under a lot of american encouragement of the saakashvili government but very provocatively towards russia and a couple of ethnic parts of georgia and iran and i think i forget the name of that number when the current dutch and russia drew a line that russia moved in with support for the local local governments local if the groups and drew a lot and that was a dress rehearsal if you like. ukraine became the real thing because for many years before the the overthrow of the in the case which government for many years before two thousand and fourteen there was all kinds of encouragement being given to nationalistic elements in the crowd and the

intensification of all of the blame game russia's president he has said and i quote on israel not to allow such situations to happen again not with the initial reaction from the russian president lot of more information coming out from the russian military as well as looking for additional steps so about russian servicemen and assets in syria would not be harmed in such a way as well also a lot of information coming out on perhaps why this was not escalated between russia and israel some observers saying that the good relationship that the mirror putin has with binyamin netanyahu as well who have met at some nine times since september twenty fifteen also a reason for perhaps an escalation not happening on this as well just some more information as well recapping what occurred here israel denies responsibility for that deadly crash for russia's point of view let's take a look because russia's defense ministry i believe is right explaining this series of events that led to the dawning of the military plane in syria let's listen. presumably minute by minute they count of this tragic incident

he's flipping it here. we had iran russia and turkey meeting in. everyone puts a nice face on it but it was a disaster it was a car wreck well i think well the very fact that turkey russia and iran walked on something together for the first time when i think three centuries you know if you look at the history of conflict we never could you know agree on something in common you know who's the odd man out i think in this time where it's of course president this time. but it's very unfortunate because basically when i talk to syria and so they all agree that the war is a war there was should be all would be quiet should be but it looks like it's going to be reignited in a really big way the problem is that their position has exhausted its potential i mean it's clear that syrians want want peace in the country is exhausted everything is more or less clear you know and the syrians they simply have no guts no desire for forty continued war so they're really irritated by this continued uncertainty about ok ok that's ok that's exactly what we want to get you're absolutely right but they'

agency reinstates russia is. a major step toward seeing many of the countries. competing on the world stage. the confirmation hearing for president gerald ford stagnates. with brett kavanaugh proving to be one of america's most divisive nominees ever. with the big stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment. well this is the weekly on r t international law and welcome. russian military plane on monday night's off the syrian coast the blame game has been intensifying between the main parties directly or in directly involved in the incident our senior correspondent the of breaks down the mouth it's a bad really bad situation there's the tragedy fifteen people dead to friendly fire . and then there's the fallout everyone's blaming everyone i meet on the jets deliberately created a dangerous situation for the war ships and aircraft located in that area while it may have been a syrian missile that down the plane it was israel that set the stage says russia israel bomb syria again the syrians defend themselves and the russian jet gets caught in the crossfire the israeli milit

over 30 years since the cold war ended, the challenges today from russia are somewhat on the one hand they are similar and on the other hand they are entirely different, many younger people who were not alive during the cold war are being asked to support and even participate in some cases in military operations on behalf of nato, can you say a few words about how we need to go beyond sort of making the case, if you will, to states and politicians and experts to the public at large about how important nato is to the security particularly for younger people? >> of course, the support for nato forgiven, new generations who don't remember and have never experienced the war, of course, it's a different thing for them. but having said that, i think the good news is that when you look at the opinion polls it's actually strong support for nato especially in the united states. and the support for nato has increased. 60 something percent, so it's a strong support for nato in the united states and in european allied countries and according to latest figures from the pew research institute suppo

. europe's politicians gathered here have one key challenge — what to do about vladimir putin's russia. my guest today is arkady dvorkovich. now, until four months ago, he was russia's deputy prime minister. what chance is there of averting the deepening hostility between russia and the west? arkady dvorkovich, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you've left of the russian governmentjust a few months ago. within that government, you were always seen as an advocate of a warmer, closer relationship between russia and the west, and yet what we see in so many different theatres, arenas, is a souring relationship. how frustrated are you by what your own government is doing? first, i'm a professional. i've been working for our state, for our country, for the government for 18 years in the civil service, it was quite a long period of time. there's some things we did that i think were a great success stories. some things we could do faster and better. and i think any government member can tell the same story. and certainly both sides, both the russian side but also on our partners‘ side, we didn

suggest that the israeli commander of the air force fly to russia to provide full details for such an investigation this is a severe test in terms of what is often presented as a strategic relationship and a close relationship between netanyahu and putin now the israeli defense forces has also issued a statement in which it says it mourns the deaths of the fifteen russian servicemen it did acknowledge that it carried out bombings against targets inside syria on monday night but also stressed just like the israeli prime minister that it was not responsible. israel expresses sorrow for the deaths of the air crew members of the russian plane that was down tonight butin syrian anti-aircraft fire israel holds the assad regime whose military shut down the russian plane fully responsible for this incident the israeli army has conducted an initial inquiry of the incident and they point out and i'm quoting here that the syrian anti-aircraft fire was indiscriminate extensive and inaccurate they also say that the syrian army norns to its missiles when the israeli air force aircraft was a really

the summit what matters here is russia turkish relations and their partnership. in the first place russia understands that for turkey it's one of the most important parts and it can't just push it and impose its own wheel on on its partner well i was partially both agree and disagree with you because i do think their relationship with turkey eric strongly is extremely important and we will talk more about that but i also think russia genuinely. cares about what happens to the people of that province and i think this is one valuable thing that we got out of the summit a very explicit declaration by all the three leaders that they will try to take a lot of care in trying to protect the civilian lives and we are talking about more than three million people living there but from what i understand it doesn't mean that russia syria or iran for that matter would refrain from narrow strikes aimed at the militants infrastructure is it possible to separate the two to go after the terrorists and fully spare the civilians i think september fourth it was the first series of airstrikes in the we

this is. a controversial decision today could bring russia and russians back in from the cold the world anti-doping agency says it will lift a ban on russia's testing laboratory despite widespread opposition in track and field athletes have not convenient under their country's flag since two thousand and fifteen also coming out the european union leaders piled the pressure on british prime minister theresa may telling her parts of her great city proposal will not work and that time is running out. to our correspondent an e.u. summit for him. it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with a decision on doping in sports that has shocked and outraged many around the world today the world anti-doping agency wada voted to lift a ban on russia's anti-doping agency that ban was put into place after a water report accused russia of state backed doping and of attempting to cover up drug abuse while russia hosted the twenty fourteen sochi winter olympics athletes across the globe are criticizing today's decision to lift the ban calling it an insult to clean athletes. the biggest stoppi

said that europe needs to look beyond its borders and to look to other countries such as russia in the future. for i think we need a total updates of our relationship with russia to further end the cold war we sometimes have continued reactions on both sides linked to mistakes and misunderstandings from the last two decades this has prevented us from fully reasoning as we should have done so it is my wish that i talked about it several times with president putin especially last spring in some petersburg comments here in terms of cyber security defense of the different terms of strategic partnership that we can envisage or rethink about the terms of the new common architecture between the european union and russia. so it seems that as the u.s. continues to isolate itself from little standing cause such as europe the european union that could be now paving the way to new relationships with other countries to manage. independence for spain's restive catalonia region was back in the news on wednesday a group strongly against the session took direct action to get their point across in a

russia and turkey agreed to form a demilitarized zone between syrian government forces and militants in adlib with moscow saying series operation against terrorist will be put on. defense ministry tracks the serial number of the missing link by the official investigation for the downing of the mh seventeen bolling these top secret documents unclassified of course for the sake of the probe the rocket to ukraine's forces. public frustration erupts in libya ever die living conditions up to seven years of instability and conflict since the overthrow of the gadhafi regime. and a top american university sparked outrage after creating the so-called safe space for white students to discuss race issues we'll be hearing from both sides of the debate. as are joining us this is r.t. international. the russian and turkish presidents have agreed to create a demilitarized zone in syria's itll a province could lay the ground for a final push against the terrorists in the area which is the last remaining extremist stronghold in the country. with use only to create along the demilitarized zo

. will be very critical. the world anti-doping agency votes to reinstate russia's own anti-drug decision signals a fresh start for russian athletics after three years in the cold. the u.s. takes a sanction swipe at china for buying russian military hardware. are circulating in the british press reveals plans within the prime minister's party to i was told and who's in the. video from wiki leaks julian assange made just before his internet was cut off for the ecuadorian embassy in london in which he discusses a very broad range of topics. you're going to freak out a little bit because. other people. of color about why. but steve. welcome to world news from r.c. international the world anti-doping agency has voted to reinstate russia's anti drugs agency the body was suspended in twenty fifteen over an alleged state sponsored doping scandal i got more details from our sports correspondent. going back after twenty fifteen november when the allegations of state sponsored doping campaign kicked off. after that why the basically told there are thirty one things rosado has to do in orde

there is simply no comparing the actions of the united states with those of putin's russia. ultimately, helsinki was a squandered opportunity to challenge vladimir putin's false narratives on issues including ukraine and syria and russia's ongoing interference in our democracy. so i understand the interest in these issues. i'm sure this resolution is a popular idea in some political circles. but ultimately it is not a wise approach to oversight. indeed, it would only threat ton distract if the bipartisan legislative and investigative efforts of this committee. this resolution's broad demand for documents conflicts with the strongest form of executive privilege recognized by the courts. the so-called presidential communications privilege. rooted in the constitutional separation of powers, presidential communications privilege applies to direct decision make big the president and also protects communications made or solicitted or received by his advisors while preparing advice for him. these privileges are at their strongest when they deal with the president's core constituti

and lebanon mr so given that you know so israel is going to continue with the operations russia now could be trying to i mean is it going to try and limit israel's operations or engage with it more you know engage in more diplomatic quarter nation and syria how is it going to use this incident as leverage. i think the incident could be really a thirty point in this situation in syria but also you know what the israelis can do and if you share should recall also what to me what the. minister of defense in the in moscow said that they are going to integrate a defensive. system be dave syrians it means that. the russians sorters. revealed the syrians operating as three hundred and that's the major to extremely difficult really for these raiders to attack such a system knowing that the russians are going to be implicated and so all of that to say. in the absence of any kind of russian agreement to let these readies do basically what they wanted to do you are going to see a situation much much more complicated than before and that is going to serve obvious needy dannie interest in syria

and shia aggression it says how many times has iran attacked israel and this puts russia in a tough spot its trademark selling point of being friends with everyone may be impossible to keep up russia is now quite even handed in the middle east and he tries to keep good relation was all the parties was is was the arabs with the palestinians was turkey was run. i wonder how long will it last that you can be a friend of everybody because by the end of the day we are dealing with a very fragile reality in the middle east with very contradictory power and a lot of atrocity as we know and violence but russia thought it could manage and why not look at all it has done for israel. when russia flew near the israeli occupied golan heights they warned them three hundred ten times they notified israel when israel bombed syria russia never shot down israeli jets or missiles even when they posed a danger to russian personnel at israel's request russia tore up a deal to sell syria s three hundred ad defense systems which would have made israeli air raids much more difficult. israel expressed its c

i'm sure that russia will get to extend your question little bit i'm sure that russia will be the last country in the world to abandon its nuclear deterrent i think russia will be the last to give up nuclear weapons because russia regards nuclear weapons as the bow walk against invasion no wolf but it's the period coalition of photos speaking about disappear disappear outside coalition force as those tensions that we've been discussing came to had in ukraine in two thousand and fourteen and in your book here try to explain both russian and western thinking in great detail and there is this popular view in moscow that as painful as the ukrainian rupture was and it certainly was and is for russia russia is playing it as a great cost for the kind of decisions that made in the ukrainian conflict there is also believed that the rapture. how to prevent a much bigger conflict between russia and they said that if russia didn't act. moment back in two thousand and fourteen that the nature would continue pushing across its border and there would be no other way escape that direct confrontat

and huge business deals russia and china are boosting up their relationship but are they building an alliance can they trust each other and what do the u.s. and its allies think this is a sad story. hello and welcome to the program i'm adopted hamid with a firm handshake the presidents of china and russia have announced stronger ties bloody mirror putin is hosting cheating ping as well as the japanese and south korean leaders of the three they eastern economic forum in vladivostok it aims to boost investment in the far east region of asia but putin is warning trade barriers are a threat to asian economies as the world stopped two economies the u.s. and china imposed trait terrorists on each other as the talks began so did the largest war games by chinese and russian troops since the soviet union three hundred thousand troops thirty six thousand tanks and armored vehicles and a thousand war planes and ships are all on parade in siberia and from the fire into the frying pan as putin introduces cheek to russian cooking rory chalons takes a look at how the countries are stretched and