next, a conversation from the rand corporation on u.s. relations with russia, sanctions against russia and china's relationship with russia. this is just over an hour. >>> welcome, everyone. i'm andy hoehn, senior vice president and research analyst here at rand. wee we're going to start our program in just a couple minutes. this would be a good time to put your phone on silent if you haven't already done so. we'll have c-span broadcasting our program, so when we get to questions and answers, you'll want to make sure that you get a microphone first so they can hear the questions as well. but before i go to introductions of our panel, i want to have a special guest here who is going to join us on line on the telephone. you'll recognize the voice as soon as you hear it. >> thank you, andy. this is natalie crawford. i'm president of the rand alumni association. i just want to welcome each of you who has come to this event tonight and apologize for my lack of attendance, but i'm working really hard on an innovation called a transporter beam that will beam me up like scotty did during "star

good relations with russia you should do that and. you don't mean that's good relations exclusively with russia. of course not of course to have good relations with russia doesn't mean not to have relations and good relations with the neighbors always the united states all these european countries. russia is country with. very serious strengths in the region and we have lots of problems with the russian federation so but this is a very important from my point of view we have to discuss these issues and problems with the russia when you have problems you have to discuss and only in this way the people are calling me a suppression politician but was out a day or so you are here on your show russia as much as you're willing to talk to russia i wanted to speak with russia i want to find solution was a russian and georgian no problems i want to go establish friendly relations with russia because i am 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 ye

the united states to china to russia and japan bits that there was progress to be made and that north korea was ready in dialogue. and now we all see progress which means that it wasn't just the sanctions that made a difference be the north korean leader kim jong un was educated in the west and he understands what is really important now for his country and the important thing is to be able to feed the nation by just going to the impossible without dialogue and nuclear disarmament north korea understands that it will not prosper without peace that's for sure. not sure anything about keeping the regime alive it was obvious to everybody that everyone sat the north korean leader needs nuclear weapons to prop up the current regime it's to guarantee of his safety in the regime and he's saying again those are just words for now but he is willing to give up nuclear weapons does this mean that he has some other guarantees stronger. nuclear weapons. you know when you are starving but you have nuclear weapons that is a road to nowhere and it could spell doom for north korea first and foremost c

, we'll buy them from china or russia. they will say america won't sell us the ships, america won't sell us the arms we need. so we'll buy them from russia, china and some others, france. trish: they benefit financially. and have a relationship with those countries. president trump: senators and congressmen said if they did that we should punish them by not selling them the equipment. if we don't sell them the equipment, they will buy lesser quality equipment. but they will buy it from russia and china. so we are not hurting them, we are hurting ourselves. so we want to be smart. i don't want to give up a $110 billion order. i don't want to give that up. you are talking about jobs. we created an incredible economy. i want bowing and lockheed and raytheon to take that money and hire people to make that incredible equipment. trish: i get it. but it's complicated stuff. you are looking at jobs here at home and a lot of money for american companies. and we are look at something pretty atrocious. we don't know. you mentioned jeff sessions earlier. we haven't heard a lot about the mueller inve

things are considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of the program we discussed russia's relationship with the west ukraine and a lot of history. not going to be in the gordian knot i'm joined by michael c. or moscow geoffrey roberts he's a historian senior fellow at the helsinki for advanced studies and a member of the royal irish academy and we have nick like petro he is a professor of political science at the university of rhode island all right gentlemen let's talk about cutting the already and not we're we all know the poor state of relations between the west and russia we both know that very well. how do we get out of this cold or we just have to accept the status quo for a very long time to come. i'm afraid it's the latter. i don't see any political figure on the horizon in the west who could take the lead and show that kind of innovative thinking that would lead to an era of mutual benefit and potential reconciliation between east and west because i do think in the long run it will happen. because there's a lot of general frustration among many knowledgeable polit

activities since the beginning of the hear. all russia has denied the allegations which came as nato defense ministers as well busy meeting in brussels. this miles and friendly handshakes on the second day of nato summit of defense ministers were overshadowed by news of a possible cyber attack by russian agents in the netherlands. nato allies expressed their solidarity with the decision by the dutch and the british governments to call up russia on its plate and attempt to undermine international law and international institutions. dutch authorities announced today they had foiled a cyber attack on the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the dutch defense ministry said it expelled for russian nationals after they were caught spying at the chemical weapons watchdog but the defense ministers had other things to talk about as well national defense budgets were on the agenda with the us still pushing for other members to up their military spending but the term was less strident than recent spending has gone up it is clear we are making progress this will be the fourth con

interview on al-jazeera. really could be after a decades long hiatus why is russia so interested in renewing ties tweet us your thoughts or leave them alive you choose chat and he too could be in the street. in the days of the soviet union the kremlin maintained strong ties with african nations but the collapse of the soviet union in the ninety nine thousand schools russia to retreat it would now it appears of ready to once again establish close relationships on the continent in recent months russia has built minute she partnerships with uganda democratic republic of congo and the central african republic the kremlin has also shipped arms to cameroon and has announced plans to build a nuclear power plant in sudan for some african countries the attention from moscow is tempting so how would this situation develop and what does russia want out of it joining us to discuss this in moscow. she's a senior research fellow at the institute for african studies of the russian academy of sciences in new york ro not go potus he's a director at signal risk and exclusively african risk advisory f

with russia president promised hawkish national security advisor john bolton here in moscow for talks tonight. in office well saudi arabia admits dissidents journalist. was murdered in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul but as international pressure grows washington stop short of repercussions like any talk of sanctions is premature. and in the u.k. through the may soon to give parliament major if they don't break sit and criticism from some who are questioning her whole future as prime minister. hi good evening thanks for watching out international live with me kevin owen who stay with me for the next thirty minutes for this latest update this monday afternoon then first off donald trump's national security advisor as mentioned john bolton here in moscow for talks with russia's foreign minister his visit here to the russian capital comes after president trump announced he's going to be taking the u.s. out of that key nuclear arms treaty with russia while also vying to develop new weapons to a part of history that treaty was signed back in one thousand nine hundred seventy between th

would withdraw from a nuclear arms agreement with russia u.s. president donald trump accused russia of violating a thirty year old treaty on intermediate range missiles and threatened a fresh arms race with moscow. this is what the drama is about medium range nuclear ballistic missiles that have been on a self-imposed by the u.s. and russia since the end of the one nine hundred eighty s. that may be about to change u.s. authorities believe russia may have developed weapon systems like these in breach of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement they go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to wear the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we bonded greatly but russia has not fortunately wanted the agreement so we're going to terminate a break but we're going to pull out. the kremlin has denied trump's allegations saying it has not produced any missiles that are prohibited by the i.n.f. treaty the prospect of a unilateral u.s. withdrawal has caused shock in moscow. the i.n.f. treaty was seen as a major breakthrough in n

russia responds to western accusations it's been carrying out dirty cyber timothy's calling it an orchestrated propaganda campaign we'll bring you a rundown thursday's the war of words. america holds its breath awaiting the outcome of the brett kavanaugh rick case the supreme court nominee accused of sexual misconduct suite to take a look at the unexpected effect this scandal could have on the looming midterm elections. limited escalating trade war u.s. vice president mike pence claims china is trying to orchestrate a replacement for donald trump that's up to beijing and all oil imports from america. not here in moscow thanks for joining us this is our. moscow house responded to the string of accusations made by the west on the alleged cyber attacks calling those claims a directed propaganda campaign against russia now this is after a number of countries an international organization said that russian military personnel were behind attempted cyber attacks on groups from the international chemical weapons watchdog food to russia's own news agency there were hundreds of victims targ

state, part of the 50 capitals tour. now a discussion on the state of u.s.-russia relations, the impact of sanctions against russia, and for developing relationship between russia and china. this is just over an hour. >> we will have c-span recording or broadcasting, so when we get to questions and answers, make sure you get a microphone so they can hear the question as well. before i go to introductions of our panel, i want to have a special guest here who is going to join us online on the telephone. you will recognize the voice as soon as you hear it. >> thank you. i am from the alumni association. i want to welcome you each of you and apologize for my lack of attendance. i am working hard on innovation called the transporter beam that in staram me up like wars, so he hasn't got there yet. we have one of these events i will get there quickly. i know you will enjoy the program. thank you for giving me these couple of minutes. enjoy the evening, folks. >> always great to hear from you. the 70thelebrating anniversary as a research and analysis organization. our goal is to take on

with russia the landmark intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was negotiated more than thirty years ago by then president ronald reagan and the soviet leader mikhail gorbachev it bans nuclear and conventional missiles with ranges of five hundred to fifty five hundred kilo misses let's have a listen to what president trump had to say russia has violated the agreement they'd been violated years. the man hears that i don't know why president obama didn't negotiate or pull out. we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement they go out of their weapons and we're not allowed to wear the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we've honored the agreement but russia has not fortunately bonded the agreement so we're going to terminate the agreement we're going to pull out. all right let's cross now to our moscow correspondent emily show and emily thanks for joining us at tell us how is russia reacted to trump's announcement well on the one hand we've seen a shocker from russian politicians they've called this step dangerous they've called it catastrophic they say that the

agreement with russia but a landmark intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was negotiated more than thirty years of the by been president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev it bans nuclear and conventional missiles with ranges of five hundred to fifty five hundred kilo mrs trump accused russia of violating the pact something moscow denies . this is what the drama is about medium range nuclear ballistic missiles that have been on a self-imposed by the u.s. and russia since the end of the one nine hundred eighty s. that may be about to change u.s. authorities believe russia may have developed weapon systems like these in breach of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out into weapons that we're not allowed to wear the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we bonded greatly but russia is not fortunately on to the agreement so we're going to terminate it we're going to pull out. the kremlin has denied trump's allegations saying it has not produced any missiles that are prohibited by the i.n.f. tr

secretary of state's policy planning staff, covering russia and eurasia. to your left, on my right, is sarah massa go, policy researcher here at rand. she previously served as a senior analyst for russian military capabilities in the department of defense. when i -- i'll turn this over to you, and join this group here at the end to have a few wrap-up comments. over to you. >> thanks so much. inc. you all for coming this evening. the format is, as you can expect, i will ask a few initial questions of our panelists to get some things out on the table, and then after 20 minutes or so, turn it over to a general question and answer period. be thinking of hard questions you would like to ask at that point, we very much appreciate you joining us this evening. let's start with you, sam, everyone loses, that sounds like a good summary of u.s. russia relations today, unfortunately, this is a relationship that has become politically toxic, it is analytically vexing, from some of our work here, it's also strategically perilous, increasingly so. how bad is the u.s. russia relationship today? and wh

thank you. because i don't think. russia responds to western accusations it's been carrying out dirty cyber activities boarding it's an orchestrated propaganda campaign we're bringing you a rundown on thursday's war of words. america holds its breath awaiting the outcome in the brights common a case the supreme court nominee accused of sexual misconduct with lopez and the unexpected effects the scandal could have on the looming with an election and. maybe an escalating trade war u.s. vice president mike pence claims that china is trying to walk a straight a replacement but trump to beijing and is that all oil imports from the. very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with minichiello great to have me with is this hour now on top story moscow has responded to the string of accusations by the west on alleged cyber attacks calling the claims a directed propaganda campaign against russia now soft a number of countries on the international organizations said that russian military personnel were behind attempted cyber attacks on everyone from the international chemical wea

this contest for influence in its eurasia and yet i think there's a growing sense here in russia that moscow has been able to convert the loss of ukraine into something meaningful that it may have lost influence in ukraine but it has gained it somewhere else where's the opposite happened to the united states do you agree with that well i'm not sure these things are necessarily interconnected i mean america's problems would be there were whatever russia was doing. you know well you know it's now four years since the four and a half years since the great crisis erupted and you certainly can see that everything has gone wrong for russian foreign policy around it you know its intervention in syria starts in two thousand and fifteen that probably would have occurred with or without the ukraine crisis and you know i'm not sure how much you want to get into a discussion of russian behavior in syria but from a power point of view it's actually been pretty successful so one might say that there's been a period in which there have been certain gains but you know also lots of other things have g

something that russia would have done and the u.k. for example or again allegedly done and you say and clearly in congress unlike in the administration unlike in the white house in congress there is deep seated hostility towards saudi arabia at least since nine eleven just like there is against russia so when the trump administration came in two years ago and said we're going to open new pages or so did abia and russia of course congress remained silent but the hostility did not go away and now that there's a new approach unity when it comes to russia or or saudi arabia the congress does not hesitate to slap them with sanctions and i think we will see congress slapping saudi arabia was sanctions if the administration does not provide clear answers unfortunately for president trump and now that the public opinion is more conscious not that the american media and others are of course speaking about this issue he is going to be putting pressure and can king solomon to come up with answers and to take responsibility who in the kingdom of saudi arabia will take responsibility i can't think

trump campaign donor comes under suspicion because of his russia ties. >> do you think that these donations were part of a russian campaign to influence the election and help president trump? >> absolutely. >> did paul manafort's russian codefendant use a republican institute as cover? we have exclusive details from an insider. >>> and in russia, it's dangerous to be gay. >> after the bullet hit me. i tried to hide and they yelled, where are you running, fagot? >> our live coverage from houston starts now. >>> welcome to houston, texas, as you know, i mainly report from overseas, this time i'm here for a story that's both foreign and domestic. and yes it involves president trump and russia. in particular, why is it that some of president trump's most devoted supporters seem to like putin's russia. i've been twrafling in the states, i went to a gun show, i spoke to folks from the christian right. and what surprised me, even when they see all of the reporting about russia's attempts to influence our election, and they know that every one of our intelligence agencies reported putin s

testify on the status and future of arms control agreements between the u.s. and russia. they answered questions on current relations between the two countries and the status of mornlting under agreements such as the 2011 stark treaty. the senate foreign relations committee, this is about an hour, 45 minutes. >> i want to thank everybody for being here. i think because we need 11 people to vote, we're going to go ahead and give the opening statement. as soon as we get to 11 folks, we'll stop and vote on the noms and i want to thank everybody for their cooperation. but first, i want to thank our witnesses for being here with us today. we're fortunate to have such an experienced and distinguished panel. as our members know, this is a fourth in a series of hearings on russia since july with today's hearing considering the current status of and prospects for arms control efforts. current situation is not encouraging. out of four agreements, new start, the inf treaty, the open skies treaty, and the chemical weapons convention, we have significant problems with russian compliance of

president trump says the u.s. is pulling out of the i.n.f. treaty with russia which requires both sides to eliminate medium range nuclear missiles. russia has violated the agreement they've been violated here for many years and we're not going to let them violate the nuclear agreement so we're going to terminate agreement we're going to. saudi arabia claims that the missing journalist. was killed in a fight inside its consulate in istanbul. and a series of deadly bombings targeting polling stations across afghanistan overshadowing the country's parliament elections. it's one o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all t. international live from last year with me in a day or two to a very warm welcome to the program and we start the program with breaking news the u.s. is pulling out of a nuclear missile pact with russia the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty has been in place for more than thirty years president trump accused moscow of violating the deal russia as violated the agreement they'd been violating here for many years that i don't know why president obama didn't

we're going to pull out president trump threatens to pull out of a nuclear missile treaty with russia accusing it of violating the moscow this weekend says should washington withdraw it would be a major blow to global security. news of the week grieving friends and relatives have said the final goodbyes to the twenty victims of the college bomb attack in crimea one of the worst such massacres in russia's history. so the raid on admits this weekend that. died in a fight inside its consciousness after almost three weeks of denying any involvement. either sunday afternoon from moscow the next thirty minutes welcome to the weekly with me kevin though in our seven days roundup of the big stories we covered for you starting with one from today actually first russia says the united states is taking a dangerous step after president trump announced the u.s. was going to ditch a decade's old nuclear pact requiring both countries to eliminate the short to medium range atomic missiles such moves could lead to retaliate through measures. we condemn the attempts to get concessions from moscow by us

plans to abandon the decades old arms control treaty with russia the concern is that by scrapping the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or i n f as it is known moscow and washington could return to cold war levels of hostility and new clear stockpiling so question on quadriga this week is trump versus potent a new nuclear arms race and to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by three just to give observers and their lists beginning with berlin based pediatrician alex rosen he's president of the german section is the organization international physicians for the prevention of nuclear war and dr rosen says a new nuclear arms race has already begun nuclear weapons are incompatible with international humanitarian law and should be back also with us is there a curse from all thirty journalist who writes for the los angeles times. all those people in western europe who are so worried about every new nuclear arms race where they've been since two thousand and eight when russia started testing cruise miss. in violation of the oh yeah and that and a very warm welcome

so you have put this was going to do some. research. russia responds to western accusations it's been carrying gallops dirty cyber activity calling it's an orchestrated propaganda campaign we'll bring you a rundown on thursday's war of words. as america holds its breath awaiting the outcome when the kavanah case the supreme court nominee accused of sexual misconduct we'll look at an unexpected effect of the scandals that have on the looming midterm elections. and make the next kill a take the trade war u.s. vice president mike pence claims that china is trying to ensure the replacement of trump is off to beijing and is all that oil imports from america. a warm welcome you watching are getting international with mean icky air and within this hour now moscow has responded to the string of accusations by the west on the alleged cyber attacks calling the claims a directed propaganda campaign against russia as ofter a number of countries and international organizations said that russian military personnel were behind attempted cyber attacks on everything from the international chemica

poor state of relations between the west and russia we both know that very well. how do we get out of this cold or we just have to accept the status quo for a very long time to come. i'm afraid it's the latter. i don't see any political figure on the horizon in the west who could take the lead and show that kind of innovative thinking that would lead to an era of mutual benefit and potential reconciliation between east and west because i do think in the long run it will happen. because there's a lot of general frustration among many knowledgeable politicians and academics and observers but there's no one willing to step up to the plate as it were and assume that responsibility basically of saying you know the the emperor has no clothes we need a different one we needed a nixon to go to china something something like yes and to see it through the hope had been that trump would be able to do this but he seems to be bamboozled by his own advisers and unable to extricate himself from the general morass that is washington today. when this is all to. this slogan which a lot which is pessimi

with russia president trump's hawkish national security advisor john bolton here in moscow for talks today. saudi arabia admitted just a journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul but his international pressure grows washington nonetheless stopped short of repercussions for now anyway saying any talk of sanctions is mature. bubble toil and trouble is spelled nights in new york as a cover to which is before my head ritual on supreme court judge brett kavanaugh that events met with protesters condemning the black magic. thing for me kevin thanks for watching out international live from moscow hope you stay with me for next thirty minutes for update and sort of this still trumps national security advisor john bolton is here in moscow for talks with russia's foreign minister his visit here to the russian capital comes after president trump announced he'll be taking the us out of a crucial nuclear arms treaty with russia while also vowing to develop new weapons that treaty was signed back in one thousand nine hundred seven between the then the soviet un

and that the latter is well is the most anticipated thing because india is expected to buy russia's as four hundred missile defense systems and it's important not only because it will expand new delhi's defense capabilities but also because it is a full political statement by india the united states they have a habit of punishing anybody showing interest in russian arms china was slapped with sanctions after it purchased russia's most advanced fighter jets and the same as four hundred missile defense systems and with india it is expected to be well quite similar here's how the russian industry and trade minister described the situation knowing india is no exception in terms of the pressure being exerted on them and at the end of the day it will all depend on how resilient a colleague saw in the face of this pressure i wouldn't venture to predict with a hundred percent certainty how india will act but judging by the talks with them surely some obstacles a lawyer will to rise but still the colleagues national policy is independent when it comes to making decisions on purchasing foreig

as author of the decay of western civilization and resurgence of russia origin across liberals in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it glenn in the future we're going to do a review of your book but we're going to stick with this story here mark who are the winners who are the losers here and where do you think this is going to go. well the ultimate loser is of course the journalists intelligence affiliates jamal. regime dissident insider yeah i mean he's he's been a fervent member of the muslim brotherhood something that if you mention you are part of the right wing whisper smear campaign against against him he was a real threat later he was able to play area he was involved with the cia and former saudi intelligence vice he was opposed to the most recent he was the protege of the former intelligence official of saudi arabia the head of their intelligence and since the fall of the saudi arabia's fallout with the muslim brotherhood during the arab spring he has since been excised from power and became an actual dissident against the saudi g

states and russia did as much as they could to resolve their differences when it comes to the i.n.f. treaty in the course of the past couple of days in front john bolton came here to this media venue in central moscow not far from the kremlin just after a nine hour and a half long conversation with president putin and he revealed john bolton i mean revealed two main factors as to why the united states still looks to abandon the deal one he says that russia has already deployed in europe some missiles that are banned under the deal and to the united states see this treaty as outdated he says that the deal should include other nations like for example china and also john bolton talked about the key difference between russia and the united states when it comes to the understanding of the agreement with respect to the question of russian compliance as i said it is the american position that russia's violation it is russia's position that they're not violated so one has to ask how do you convince the russians to come back into compliance with obligations they don't think they're violatin

it's relations between russia and the us era paraplegia and this could threaten the whole greater arms control regime and if the i.m.f. falls it will be incredibly difficult in terms of domestic politics for both the u.s. and russia to agree to extend new start and if new start goes in twenty twenty one it will be the first time the world has been left with mutually agreed capsule new u.s. and russian arsenal since one thousand nine hundred seventy two. i think there is also a wider threat to transatlantic relations here europeans despite having concerns over russian compliance over the years since two thousand and fourteen. approached the issue very differently and i think of wanted to keep the news open for cooperation to resolve compliance concerns between russia and the u.s. and just like trump's decision to withdraw from the j.c. period the iran deal you know notch really i think this represents another area where trump is going against the core interests of his european allies and walking away from arms control let me bring in washington d.c. hey i will bring in moscow as we

. zimbabwe. russia is interested in. mining in the mining sector there is a human resources in which russians are greatly interested. this is a project in which russian cooperation. is interest. on the. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov visited a number of different countries on the continent one of them was zimbabwe and this is what the zimbabwean foreign minister. had to say about this relationship with russia have a listen it is the desire of zimbabweans that we can. feed our little knowledge with the russians are quite competent so that we can also develop in terms of a bloody through the. whole for example has been asked so that we can industrialized it and then create value in what we do. paul that was very upbeat that many says zimbabwe he sounded positively to it. he did and i think a very very interesting to see what happens in the long term between zimbabwe and russia there's a lot of promises that have been made but what we see in a lot of russian engagement with africa is lots of you know exciting deals are signed and then if you look two three years down the road no

adversary to a certain extent, it's -- this kind of thing was sort of -- given that russia was prepared to take more assertive steps in light of the preparation steps, this was sort of an easy step to take. it didn't require the kind of -- it didn't require a huge amount of resources. >> so, yeah, cheap in terms of the initial cost. you both described a situation where there was a mindset where they're almost not thinking about consequences or the second step or something like that. especially given how sensitive they are about our procedures in their politics, could they not have imagined it would have the explosive result that it had? >> it's hard for any of us to imagine that, i think. it would have been different had the election result been different, of course. but taking a step back, what we do know on press reporting is that in the summer of 2017, you know, they came at an official level to the u.s. and basically offered a truce on the experience. so this is a russian tactic where first is a punch back in the face, and then they say let's stop doing this now and have an

mean russia is under fire from several fronts over alleged cyber attacks the netherlands' expels for russians accuses of an attempted attack on the us chemical weapons watchdog in the hague now the four among a group of russian agents now facing indictment in for us in connection with cyber attacks coming off. the migrant rescue ship aquarius is in the french port of musée after its registration was canceled could this mark the end of privately run missions to save migrants from drowning in the mediterranean sea. and germany is not going to match pools talks with israeli counterparts. both stressed that iran must never be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons but they agree to disagree on the value of the nuclear deal with terror on. me thank you for your company authorities and then in the netherlands' say they fended off a russian cyber attack on the un chemical weapons watchdog in april moscow has denied involvement investigators allege four suspects talk to call for the electronic equipment outside the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons in the hague and left

there's already one from russia to germany this one's going to take a more direct route now germany seems like they want some u.s. gas and what you make of that one yes is liquefied natural gas and they're actually constructing a huge airport up near hamburg on the northern shore there of germany and i think again this is actually a very smart move because now what she's doing is she's trying to align herself further with trump and further with the west and i think one thing that trump is very right about and that is about pushing for these countries such as germany who receives nato support a nato protection we were all buying natural gas. from russia so i think it's the right thing for her to do and again i think she's looking jael politically with both of these decisions. excellent thank you so much for that hillary if you won't mind just hang right here for a moment because what your expertise on our next topic too over the weekend president trump spoke about pulling out of yet another agreement and this one deals with nuclear weapons at the one thousand nine hundred seven treat

treaty with russia. with the top stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment developments as well you're with the weekly on r.t. international hello and welcome to our top story weapons they brought to crimea in southern russia twenty people were killed and dozens more injured a college when a student set off on explosive device indiscriminately opened fire our senior correspondent rock us the it shows how the atrocity on ford. ok. it was here on the thirteenth of october that ladislav called the suspected shooter began to turn his plaid so mass mud into reality it was in the middle of the the commune the commune game you know even the choice. is new but i hope a new play to put on couldn't be on a bishop with a one hundred and fifty shotgun shells were only for the second part of his atrocity. four days later he waited until his mother left this house dressed in black and carrying a bag of ammo left for college on the other side of town. he detonated an improvised explosive device. to put up with second on us i'm still flipping through the bomb field as it wa

moscow to discuss issues including syria, russia interference entrance decision to leave the intermediate range treaty. he held a news conference with reporters following that meeting. >> [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] >> good evening everyone, my mayor sarah tinsley. before i introduce the ambassador i would like to tell you how we will proceed this evening. the ambassador will make a brief statement, then he will take questions from all of you. my colleague here will be calling on the reporter. before we began, first let me recognize the ambassador. thank you for everything you have done. make it so delightful as well as the rest of the u.s. embassy staff in moscow. we cannot begin before we think our host. >> [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] [speaking in native language] >> thank you. >> thank you. and thank you very much for being here. i a

joining us u.s. president donald trump told reporters that the u.s. . agreement with russia the. nuclear forces treaty was negotiated more than thirty years ago by then president. gorbachev. convinced of missiles with ranges of five hundred fifty five hundred kilometer. russia has violated the agreement they've been violating here for many years and i don't know why president obama didn't negotiate or pull out. that we're not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement they go out of their weapons and we're not allowed to we're the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we bonded to agreement but russia is not fortunately on to the agreement so we're going to terminate the agreement we're going to. go across not to moscow where the job of correspondent. is standing by emily good to see you how has russia reacted to trump's announcement while the rest russia has taken trump's announcement very seriously various officials today have been warning of the danger of such a decision and of the serious consequences that it could have and several officials today including two heads of inter

top administration announced it would pull out of a nuclear arms deal with russia dating back to the cold war president trump has accused moscow of violating the treaty russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has warned of consequences we just witnessed that it was the shits but it's you know i just don't wish to start again actions that in face of reactions. because true teachings stability can only be ensured when there is heresy it would be sure hope so yet still we are still with us there is a parent who must be maintained under all circumstances that those are your tickets that's all you do that it's responsible for global stability and expect that the u.s. won't renounce their share of that responsibility either listable reaction there from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov all right let's take you now to moscow to do w's a correspondent there and we share when she is standing by good to see you and u.s. national security adviser john bolton in moscow where you are scheduled to meet with putin and lab rough what can we expect from those talks. well a lot of arms co

prisoner of conscience he is in a prison in russia after being convicted on terror charges. only a hawk it's great to have you along everyone we begin with the growing a package probe in the u.s. were a nationwide search is underway for a suspected serial mail bomber parcel bombs have been sent to a string of president trump's opponents over the past few days more suspicious packages have been discovered today and that makes a total of at least ten intercepted across the country so far here's a look at where the investigation has taken authorities starting in new york. early morning in manhattan the n.y.p.d. responding to yet another pipe bomb. the target owner of this restaurant actor robert de niro an outspoken critic of president donald trump. new york's mayor confirmed it matched all the packages across the country this is clearly an effort to terrorize people politically to choose people for political purposes and attack them because of their beliefs. later in the day the secret service says intercepted two more packages postal centers and delaware address to former vice presi

nuclear arms treaty with russia president travels hawkish national security advisor john bolton here in moscow for talks are happening all afternoon tell you about that also coming up saudi arabia admits dissident journalist. was murdered in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul but as international pressure grows washington stopped short of repercussions for now anyway so any talk of sanctions is premature and happening right now monitoring this one in the u.k. right now to resume a addressing parliament with a major break update his retort but the northern ireland border as some m.p.'s condemn intensified pressure on the pm. so lots to talk about is kevin already here at our teenage q moscow hoping to stay with me for the next thirty minutes as we get across all this first donald trump's national security advisor john bolton is here in moscow for talks with russia's foreign minister his visit here to the russian capital comes after president trump announced he's going to be taking the u.s. out of that critical nuclear arms treaty with russia that's been longstanding for the last thirty

cranor russia they have a common history they have come i would say cultural and religious but let's discuss does in detail when let me press you once more do you think russia current policy reserve in nato could really be described as containment i do consider that what i've been in in the very recent months sure is that russia on one side the east turning to work easier in order to create a stronger eastern bloc and didn't you can ask the west yes and death would be a first step to stop a large amount of the western counters to work toward a russian federation secondly the new generation of weapons the seer the president of russia for that he should do in the speech beginning of march he showed a new new weapons and that means a dem or nato is acting in order to establish a new meter the basis in sentence to euro or more of the now the cities are looking forward the new system of listing misses and so on the more this has no saying let's look at it as far as i understand from the russian point of view there is a big difference between containment as and now for it to contain

just because if you look at their european situation it changed to russia's disadvantage in one thousand ages seven when the treaty was signed poor and czech republic. germany they were all part of the soviet walk and of course now these nations have governments which are very hostile to russia or they call russia of course their own nation we don't consider them hostile we never use that word but obviously a from a military point of view it would make sense for atia to have there are intermediate range missiles directed at these countries because for let me bring in let me bring in lawrence. over here on air which is a blind guy you're hearing that is what he's saying in almost no so although obviously russia is interested in that you're hearing what i guess is saying in moscow that the troops are your. usual cover allowed me to let you all have plenty of time we have to bring in all of the guess i'm really sorry about that but i just want to bring your point out with i didn't finish my thought ok well let me bring in you can answer lawrence's point after this is which was what

from. with the u.s. planning to drop out from a landmark nuclear arms treaty with russia president trump talk if a national security advisor has just wrapped up several high level meetings with russian officials in moscow a live report coming up. dissident journalists. murdered in the kingdom. but as international pressure grows washington stopped short of repercussions saying any talk of sanctions is premature. and the british prime minister moves to convince parliament that progress is being made on break said while some m.p.'s condemn the intensified pressure being put on to reason may. have every worldwide news twenty four seven this is r.t. international my name is col embrace now ten pm monday night here in moscow and it's developments here that we start with donald trump's national security advisor john bolton has in the past couple of hours wrapped up the first round of talks this monday on his visit to moscow arrived in the russian capital as president trump announced that he'll be taking the u.s. out of a nuclear arms treaty with russia while also vowing to develop new we

young people have created some fake heroes for themselves so believe that all of us not only in russia all over the world on not reacting in the right way for a change in conditionals it means that we are not creating useful needed and interesting content for children and they grabbed this solar eclipse heroism in this result. ok let's get further details now on what was said this afternoon by the russian president. joins us from sochi where he was speaking . again you go just run through then some of the other key points. and in naturally the conversation covered all sorts of international topics the obvious one is syria the russian president has said that he's happy with what russia cheve did in that country saying that the primary goal of course was to stop the terror threat way before it reaches the home soil he also thanked turkey for helping russia broker peace to help avoid anything any any bloodshed in the syrian province of idlib the last stronghold that anti assad forces have in the country and well in fact just a couple of months ago politicians and journalists they were scr