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 wars" and i haven't gotten there yet.

still talks that because of russia or is russia now talk stick because it's trump. well i guess it's a bit of both you know this is the going on now for two years. there's been a lot of back and forth and there are so many i would say moving parts right now that it's the you know the causal arrows are very hard to follow neatly the said the notion of whether it's correct or not that you know trump won the election. to some degree because of russian assistance has taken hold in many quarters we will now see because mr miller's report as you know should be with us and within several months what he concludes and so that i think does tend to stick and and the irony is of course as i'm sure is apparent to russians as well this that. the very fact that donald trump is associated with this effort means that it very much limits his freedom to improve relationship with russia i mean one of the few consistent. points that he made on on the campaign trail was we should have a better relationship with russia he's been able to do quite a bit. on the trade front you know you can

. >> do you see russia as a threat? >> why would russia -- how would russia be a threat to me. >> do you think the russians are a threat? >> not as big a threat as the chinese. >> what about the russian inquiry. >> poppy dock. >> in 2011, she founded an organization called the right to bare arms. lobbying for gun rights in russia. it wasn't russians she was courting, it was americans. in 2013 she held a concealed carry fashion show in moscow, the stars of america's second amendment movement flew in to spend time with their new best friends. >> there are no people who are more alike than americans and russians. >> at the same event butina met paul ericson, with longstanding ties to the republican party. they started a working relationship that turned into a relationship. >> everything she was doing was essentially political operative 101. go out and build friendships, get people who are willing to do favors for you. >> reporter: soon she was rubbing shoulders with some of the republican establishment heavy hitters, john

i'm very happy that russia is paying closer attention to the east including korea korea used to be russia's partners we cooperated see as well it would be nice to rebuild all that but we definitely needs of those starts. i very much hope that we will meet many times in the future here and at the eastern economic forum that russian made possible in ten years i think russia will be a true asian country not only in the jug graphical sense yes but also economically that is why i think. the economy. right now the u.s. is south korea's closest partner or any country which is out of tune with american foreign policy towards russia is heavily criticized by united states and this. put pressure on for instance there is a number of european countries which are not that aker to impose sanctions on russia but when it's pressured by the u.s. since the e.u. itself is under american influence they have to obey and imposed sanctions aren't you afraid to south korea being such a close american partner will not be allowed by washington to become friends with russia. you know i think that one day sanctions wil

i think russia's stakes are much higher than american stakes in the generally russia has been you know. making no one favorable comments about this sort of mini person and that's that sensible i'd say the more interesting case though as you mentioned is our media so you know there's a learning maybe on on several sides the united states seem to have been minimum minimally involved in this whole process process russia observed with some anxiety i suppose but it in the end didn't interfere moreover the army since themselves i think. agreed that the last thing they wanted to do under the circumstances was provoke russia and so i don't know where armenian foreign policy will eventually end up but it's certainly you know they've been careful to to maintain sort of a good tone with with. with moscow and so there's indication here learning that all sides basically are media there is another point which is that the government that was overthrown and actually managed to get russian approval for signing a significant agreement with the e.u. so it's not an association agreement actually it's not

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 complian

confidence i mean russia china. is a need railway system and if american invests in it with their capital and their technology joins in i believe that will guarantee high efficiency and mutually beneficial. thank you very much for the conversation and i wish. some plot thickens the saudis now would. died in their custody after an interrogation that went wrong turkish media claim they have evidence of intentional murder nonetheless trump declares he's not going to walk away from saudi arabia will there ever be justice for. president i don't have space in the system. i've got. the system. very. different. most people in philadelphia only about two paychecks away from homelessness. seem wrong. but old rules just don't. let me. get to shape our disdain to come to educate and in. equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. pranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a tea

so russia have a sensible policy. and i do believe that the rest of the world comparing russia's policy with the united states and some of its european partners sees that so that even if you have to take public stances. in favor of policies that are not sensible in the long run your own national interest dictates a more sensible approach and that brings you willy nilly closer to russia you know it's unfortunately we have no assistance zero sum game one side wins one side loses and it's black and white but that if i mean you can go through the great power rivalries of the the seventeenth eighteenth nineteenth century and then even in the early twentieth century we've never had a complete zero so. you know it's some point you know the going back to national interest you should be able to find your national interests and be able to co-exist with your adversary always keeping your national interests there there's no reason why it should but. i mean. that's a political choice that's a choice. but political choices and. we

we spoke to russia's envoy in the u.k. pe notes that evidence from the british side is still lacking. we believe that this kind of statement reckless and explain why first of all this statements are not supported by any evidence this is first second we hear this kind of a legations for quite a now quite a time and in this the selden seventeen for former foreign secretary boris johnson was in moscow. a lover of russian foreign minister offered him to have a consultations on the cyber security and he said if you have any questions in connection with the alleged russian activity we can put this specialist from two countries sit down at the table and to discuss professionally what are the concerns of the british side the british refused to do this and instead of that they launched reckless attacks on us without any evidence this is quite a big story you know this is the name of the russian intelligence organisation you know if you names there are expelled and all these things but the beef i mean this is this substance is not.

and earlier we spoke to russia's envoy in the u.k. he notes evidence from the british side but still lacking we believe that this kind of reckless and explain why first of all this statements are not supported by any evidence this is first second we hear of this kind of of the. word in our time in this to solve and seventeen for a former foreign secretary boris johnson was in moscow. of russian foreign minister offered him to have a consultations on the service you curity and he were exposed whatever is being said today if anything comes out it will probably disprove it but it is in the future and we need to know the truth now. there's now less than five weeks to go till america heads to the polls for the mid-term elections and it seems that the continuing arguments around donald trump supremes court nominee brit cavanagh are having an influence after the f.b.i. provided the results of a probe into the sexual misconduct accusations against the judge republicans seem satisfied the democrats are sounding the alarm. it looks to be a prod

russia is interested in. mining in the mining sector there is a platinum resources in which russians are greatly interested. this is a project in which the russian cooperation. measure common 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 came. a 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 industrialize it and then create value in what we do. paul that was very upbeat that many says zimbabwe he sounded positively excited. he did and i think i'll be 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

and russia that has been solid and it seems that the u.s. for u.s. ministration. is not too concerned about kind of breaking up these agreements and that's certainly one thing that russia will be kind of showing off now that the u.s. it's not a reliable partner even when it comes to keeping the world safe i think that will be their move in terms of the writer of moving on. now president trump has accused russia repeatedly of violating the agreement is he right is there any evidence. well the u.s. has accused russia of violating the supremum for years actually under the obama administration as well and nato has also recently come out and accused russia of violating the violating this agreement as well russia on the other hand has always denied it today they've also been denying it what we can say is that russia has certainly been popping its rhetoric in recent months and this year as well when it comes to nuclear weapons when it comes to weapons overall in. the state of the union address in march he had a whole section where he laid out all the new modern weapons t

agreement and russia says that actually the missile can't fly as far as the u.s. think thinks and therefore it's not prohibited under under this agreement so russia today as well and in the last few days has certainly been denying those accusations again. when forest from moscow thank you ali. let's catch up now on some other stories making headlines around the world nineteen people are dead and dozens more injured after two buses crashed in eastern point job in pakistan police say both buses were speeding when they collided twelve members of one family died in the accident and authorities said the death toll may rise. israeli security forces have shot dead a palestinian man who attacked a soldier with a knife in the israeli occupied west bank the soldier survived the attack it is the latest in a series of deadly incidents that have increased tensions in the west bank this month. australian prime minister scott morrison has officially apologized to thousands of victims of child sexual abuse he admitted the state had failed to protect children in institutions like

again i would want to and seeing the such a narrow pollo game between russia and the us or between russia and the u.s. and china now china has three hundred nuclear weapons whereas the us and russia have over nine thousand nuclear weapons between them so we really see the scale of nuclear. from these two countries would do all for anything that. would come as a threat from china and i think what we need to focus on is not just russia us china but what about europe europe is the continent where most nuclear weapons are stationed in the entire world and of course the reintroduction of medium range missiles with mainly us right to europe would make europe a target once again and the european nations really have to reconsider whether they want to be u.s. nuclear umbrella that they have to rely and to trust for all whether they want to take security into their own hands and you do have to wonder after everything that's happened in the last two years what else the united states has to do for europe to really take its security interests into their own hands after the. draw from the by the united

has accused russia of violating the treaty on its part has the u.s. stuck to the agreements to all does the terms of the agreement what we know there. is a thinking about producing a ploy. to account for as i said that china's activities and sells china sea but so far the pentagon has only begun research and development into such as that would be banned by this treaty and research is not prohibited by under this pact all right and it's on just one moment reporting for us in washington now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump say's all if it's all being made to stop the progress of thousands of undoing migrants making their way to the u.s. border he say's they have to apply for asylum in mexico and if they don't the u.s. will turn them away the group crossed into mexico from guatemala over the weekend. eighteen people have been killed and more than one hundred seventy injured off a train derailed in northeastern taiwan some of the carriages overturned in the crash which occurred when the cause ran off th

from russia's putin a new showdown in europe. versus putin eric and the chinese in the equation as well how are they going to be brought together these free antagonists of presumably their own self-interest i mean i think all three countries are enjoying the fruits of the prosperity of the world trade and they'll they'll want to work together i mean you mentioned earlier people are applauding trump pulling out of the i.m.f. i don't think anybody applauded i think people understand why the u.s. after so many years of violations is threatening to pull out and talking to pull out because trump wants a new deal he wants an updated modern deal that reflects the reality of twenty eighteen in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven. is going to happen any time soon i mean we're talking about the two gentlemen now meeting nov eleventh in paris well look back a year or so ago all the fears about south korea north korea with the missiles being launched there nobody thought trump was a was out of his mind. and all the sudden they're talking

treaty with russia for a violation but washington's undermining global security. in the stories that shape the week here. in crimea after a student opens fire in a college killing twenty and injuring dozens terrified witnesses what happened was they for cover. finally admits the missing journalist. and find inside its consulate in istanbul for almost three weeks denying any involvement. with the top stories for the past seven days on right up to the moment developments well you're with the weekly on r.t. international hello and welcome to our top story russia sais the united states is taking a dangerous step after president trump tore up a decade's old nuclear pact requiring both countries to eliminate their short medium range atomic missiles. such moves could lead to retaliate tory measures. we condemn the attempts to get concessions from moscow by using blackmail especially over an issue that has value for both international and nuclear security as well as for maintaining world stability. well the united states move will be discussed in moscow on monday when u.s

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 year we have witnessed a significant increase in bilateral trade and in tourism the number of russians visiting your country so far this year. or has exceeded a million and that's from what i understand. a quarter more than la

disrupted a lot because for russia they really needed to. develop a new a new weapons as well because for the west or for nato they keep saying that the a.b.m. treaty and other. missile defense shield are building is simply to you know intercept this non-existent missiles from iran but it's. become more evident as targeting russia russian these are countered somehow but also this is an interceptor missiles can be converted into this intermediate range nuclear missile so they can actually be used to target russia so russia already warned us marcie pointed out all of it in two thousand and seven put in that. treaty would have to be reconsidered because they can't live with it anymore because the with the senate what is this other believing these are controlled agreements. is that. mean we're going to have a new arms race. the illusion here means where it is now which would preferable near where i want to have something war us we're going to have caves because let me remind our viewers what that i never treaty as it was signed in the end of one

politicians and journalists they were screaming bloody murder really warning that russia is about to decimate the place to carry out a bloodbath they're killing civilians and with all the scaremongering russia release portrayed now is the biggest and baddest wolf. ever could be for example like with all the meddling and everything and of course the biggest concern here is was russia's nuclear potential so for all those who portrayed russia as an aggressor vladimir putin had a response which says there is no preemptive strike in a nuclear strike strategy only a counter strike we already we will use nuclear weapons only when we are sure that the aggressor is attacking russia. well russia is big and scary not only because of its weapons it will also hack your computers brainwash your nation and probably steal those pictures you have in that secret folder on your phone to basically of course that refers to all these stereo about russia hacking elections and meddling in other countries affairs and glamor putin was asked how he feels about that whether he feels he's weighed by that in any

presidents donald trump's announcement that he 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 nuclear stockpiling so the question on quadriga this week is trump versus bolton a new nuclear arms race and to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by three astute observers and analysts beginning with berlin based paediatrician alex rosen who's president of the german section of 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 eric author and journalist who writes for the los angeles times he asks all those people in western europe who are so worried about your renewed nuclear arms race where they've been since two thousand and eight when russia started testing cruise missiles in violation of the i n f and a ve

the united states says it's time to pull out of a nuclear arms pact with russia so i moved in thirty years ago helped end the cold war but president donald trump wants to rip it up why now and does it mean a return to the nuclear arms race and an increase in the risk of conflict this is a story. hello i'm wrong this is inside story from the united states and the old soviet union once on the brink of nuclear war they called it the cold war and it dragged on for decades but in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven u.s. president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev signed the into mediate range of nuclear forces or i.n.f. treaty defusing the arms race now there are more phase another one could be about to start because president donald trump wants out of the agreement we'll speak to all guests shortly but first let's take a look at what the i.n.f. treaty achieved. because hopeless reports from trondheim in norway. i'm here in norway as nato runs the largest war games it's held since the end of the cold war and as president trump threatens to pull out of the i.n.f. treaty

measures against russia so to say to a tech russia themselves this is in the making and this will be x. think accelerated after this new experience that was due to brussels correspondent banned. as get the reaction from russia now and i'm joined by dig up a correspondent near drugstore each who is in moscow the rio grande how are these accusations going down in russia. while the russian government is basically saying with nothing to do with it there was no attack there lived a allegations are absurd they are talking about spy mania in the west and president putin has repeatedly rejected similar charges but i've also spoken to think tankers and the intelligence community in moscow and someone told me that washington is eager to impose even tougher sanctions on russia by the end of november so you asked me if russia has nothing to lose why should they why should we russians behave the way the west wants them to behave somebody else told me that the defense department is acting aggressively because they want the situation to become more tense as you know president putin said just a coup

criminal laws they will be exposed russia must stop reckless and irresponsible behavior. this directors of behavior the russian government needs to know they want to fully condemn this a it will be exposed and it will be consequences it seems every accusation of malign activity over the last four years from the downing of m.h. seven team to the water doping scandal has come back all at once united under a common name and symbol before it was often vague russian hackers agents or just putin but apparently we can now name the entity responsible for everything all along the g r u russian military intelligence even specific names and faces have been linked with the alleged crimes seven individuals were indicted by the us with four of them also accused the involvement in the netherlands o.p.c. w hack and three war already featured in robert mueller is continuing russia meddling probe this group of just sixteen people has certainly kept busy according to the latest allegations hacking the malaysia airlines probe the o.p.c. w saul's reporting investigation and agencies from cana

and russia to eliminate the need to range ground based nuclear missiles russia has responded to trump state run warning that pulling out of the deal could lead to retaliate. we condemn the attempts to get concessions from moscow by using blackmail especially over an issue that has value for both international and nuclear security as well as for maintaining world stability in the treaty will be discussed in moscow on monday when u.s. national security advisor john bolton meets with russia's foreign minister. and cabinet discussed what america's withdrawal could mean for the world and mr bolton isn't the only critic of the deal america's doing it right and russia is not living up to the end of the bargain that's how price to donald trump mr bolton's boss explained why he's saying no to the so-called i.m.f. treaty russia has violated the agreement they've been violating it for many years that i don't know why president obama didn't negotiate or pull out. we're not going to let them violate the nuclear agreement and go out into weapons and we're not allowed to wear that one set up state i

trump: russia is doing it. and if china is doing it and we are adhering to the agreement, that is unacceptable. we have a tremendous amount of money to play with. plus 71616illion dollarars. russia has not adhered to the agreement so we're going to develop the weapons. amy: president trump announces the u.s. will pull out of a landmark nuclear arms pact brokered with russia more than 30 years ago. now russia is s threatening to retaliate.e. could this spark a new arms race? we speak with nuclear disarmament expert daryl kimball in washington, d.c. then "the new york times" exposes a trump administration memo they say would to find transgender out of existence. we will speak with aclu attorney chase strangio. then to the ongoing siege on gaza after 130 palestinians were injured friday while protesting the ongoing israeli occupation and demanding the right of return. israel has implemented a zero-tolerance policy towards protesters in gaza. >> the agenda is not only to overcome palestinians' opposition to their o

well the russia russia has taken 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 international affairs committees of the of the two houses of parliament have also portrayed this decision as kind of a strategic ploy of trump's they've called this this this blackmail ahead of us national security advisers visit john bolton's visit to moscow this week and seen as a sort of trade strategy putting pressure on russia but the foreign ministry today also appealed for calm they also kind of are portraying the u.s. side as being almost sort of a bull in a in an international china shop as it were kind of breaking up of international agreements left and right and that's a kind of a strategy in a rhetoric that we've seen increasingly in the trumpet ministration from the russian side no improvement. of repeatedly violating the agreement saying the vote is the reason why the u.s. wants to pull out of there you see it right. well that's right the

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 negotiate for full out. we're not going to let the

nuclear potential so for all those who portrayed russia as an aggressive labyrinth. i had a response. from the chicken services there is no preemptive strike in a nuclear strike strategy only a counter strike we already removed nuclear weapons will only when we are sure that the aggressor is a typo but i see. well russia is big and scary not only because of its weapons it will also hack your computers brainwash your nation and probably steal those pictures you have in that secret folder on your phone to basically of course that refers to all these stereo about russia hacking elections and meddling in other countries affairs and lattimer putin was asked how he feels about that whether he weighed by that in any way here's what he had to say. i'm going to show you just you know there's an old joke the question is how do you relax the answer is i just don't you get nervous all the same for tensions the international relations we don't create problems for anyone but we are the ones being accused with the phrase highly likely they say when we are there and no one is ready

in forces an american control forces closer and closer to russia there is that there is certainly russia why are they doing this of course it's a very aggressive move mr putin pointed out these these things have been going on for a while and this is just another step in american aggressiveness it's a horrible step it's a slap on the in the face of the the dead president reagan and it's a horrible thing i remember when he was was president for example was a reich avik negotiating with mr gorbachev with the neo cons around the more desperate they not be allowed to meet by themselves they want to think they didn't they wanted to control reagan reagan was towards the end of his life wanted to get rid of all nuclear weapons he thought he called them god awful weapons they are they are indeed that and the fact that the u.s. wants to manufacture more station them all around the world can only have a very very bad effect it's a miracle we've escaped a third world war using nuclear weapons but people like mr bolton want a third world war and why is he in the trumpet ministration why isn't he in a

-russia relations -- the economic relationship between the eu and russia is far, far more significant than ours with russia, and, of course, they're our neighbors in a way that only alaskans are. and, you know, therefore this -- the broader west relationship with russia is sort of a more palpable thing for a lot of eu countries. so generally speaking, that has been somewhat of a force for moderation in the broader western position in the context of collective decision-making bodies like nato and the eu. if we dial back a couple years, there was a very united us-eu front on russian policy coming from the ukraine crisis, and even going back to the soviet period where there was coordination on sanctions and the eu was taking much more of an economic hit and policy on how to deal with the ukraine crisis and so on. now because of broader tensions with the u.s.-russia relationship, the sort of the foundations of that unity are to a certain extent eroding and particularly on sanctions where the piece of legislation i mentioned actually targets european companies for doing business with russi

text to carry out further attacks on russia which has been dead. you need to be the enemy of the moment in western capitals so this is less to do with truth than justice it's everything to do with geopolitics and the drive for a germany which drives the foreign policy of western capitals. they're watching our teams national still ahead feed a sad venezuela says it's not dropping the us dollar in international trade or tell me why just off. you know world's big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. with lawmakers manufactured to send to the public well. when the ruling classes can protect themselves. with the famous merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. over again my venezuela is dumpin

russia can really be blamed for everything and. sophia of course has some serious cases but it's going to walk into the colonies don't because if you remember well my my favorite i think was last week was blaming the poor star wars movie on the kremlin because you know there were russian boats were out there give one size fits all told the western culture probably my favorite was george to start your kid like he was accused of sexual harassment and essentially he turned around saying well. a lot of this traffic is obviously russian bought and because he's you know being quite old well spoken about the rights. took a personal offense to it so putin is coming after him so he sent out this week to try to reassure him and run their friends and let me just reassure you that i will stand up against the russians are coming for me i will continue to fight for you so so he went from being a sexual predator to essentially being a victim and fighting for justice and so there was something like really good works that russia the model in the u.

russia violated the agreement. they've been violated 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 the 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 report russia's not fortunately on to the agreement so we're going to terminate a group that we're going to. go across not to moscow where the correspondent. is standing by really good to see you know his russia reacted to trump's announcement well rush 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 international affairs committees of the of the two houses of parliament have also portrayed this decision as kind of a strategic ploy of trump's they've called this blackmail ahead of us national security advisers visit john b

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 go out and do weapons and we're not allowed to wear the ones that stayed in the agreement and we've done it 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 trumps 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. as 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 the i.n.f. treaty was seen as a major breakthrough in nuclear security when it was ratified by former soviet president mikhail gorbachev and u.s. president ronald reagan in one nine hundred eighty seven it came after a t

what is russia nowadays is russia. a democracy as we may consider any other western european country probably not to in russia that is a special democracy the school like this very often my opinion is that. the western european counties and nato counters they tended to emphasize the danger of the. the rash of presents in order to create in a name me that would produce the five i knew further actions toward that that kind of me if somebody knows or russia. are we sure that of russia would like to invade the stone you're lucky would be to india i personally don't think so are we sure that russia wanted to include you karim me if there was not a coupe in craning two thousand and fourteen that was allowed even by european counters in the european union this is the problem the problem is that sometimes we also have interference from the. western counties in the internal affairs of the former soviet republics and this is because this strategy of nato and of the western counties is to grow to include more counter losing their

thinks into how russia views this deal he also revealed that apparently the united states do not have a clear policy on whether or not to stay in the deal they do not have a clear position on that but he stressed that that is said to change in the course of further talks with america's european partners with their asian pardon is and of course with russia in fact when it came to john bolton's discussions with the head of russia's security council they even discussed potential other versions like variants of this deal which is set to expire in two thousand and twenty one so obviously a lot of work still to be done there and now when john bolton with john bolton's visit here to most school trumps and rather harsh and stuck words this promise of withdrawing from the deal doesn't look as such a done thing doesn't look as a totally decided thing and still hopes that the united states has sort of on the fence with it and. hilary i mean what do you make of steve's argument that the method doesn't matter if you get to the right outcome at the end you buy in that one well actually i think that

russia has acted to leave huge. stright in relation to the writing process so that gives me some hope for the future. what the ukrainian nationalists going to do and concerned about the west and meddling in the conflict but i'm hopeful that russia is going to try and consign and control the whole discussion in russia during all of this in juxtaposition in the west is that putin is doing too little i mean that's how far apart we are at looking at this they're going to follow up on this point. the chords are the consensus view of all the signatories including russia that the boss must become part of ukraine again. the question arises why has that not yet happened. i think one serious concern is that the ukrainian government is extremely reluctant to see forty five million voters enter the pl the political spectrum in ukraine that are essentially opposite in opposition to their view of ukraine and as long as they can keep that at bay. they can continue their current policies. so essentially that would be. i'm not assum

confidence i mean russia china. is a need railway system and if americans invest in it with their capital and their technology joins in i believe that would guarantee high efficiency and mutually beneficial. effects. thank you very much for the conversation and i wish. the grim reaper of the bond market has appeared with this with the sky looking up the global bond market. it's a tsunami bad paper and it's. going to be the greatest. ever love . the saudis now with. i did their custody after an interrogation that went wrong turkish media claim they have evidence of intentional murder nonetheless trump declares he's not going to walk away from saudi arabia will there ever be justice for jamal khashoggi. saudi arabia claims that a journalist who went missing in istanbul more than two weeks ago died in a fight the. russian woman is charged in the u.s. for allegedly trying to in the upcoming midterm elections through social media. funerals are held in crimea for some of the twenty people shot and killed by a student at a

able to retaliate against and so russia responded. as i read by developing the same percent of cruise missiles which what has the us upset so so bolton is wrong. on trying to pass to have toughened his stance on the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi in the kingdom's istanbul confluent i was speaking in the oval office on tuesday the u.s. need to deliver his harshest words yet but stopped short of committing to punish riyad. original concept. it was carried out poorly and the cover up was one of the worst in the history of cover ups first a. bad deal should have never been thought of. somebody really messed up. and they had the worst cover up ever. and we're shouldst it is at the deal standpoint when they thought about it because whoever thought of that idea. i think is in big trouble and they should be in big trouble well these are harsh words from donald trump now at this point people are recalling how not too far in the past just a couple weeks back he was actually emphasizing the importance of arms sales to saudi arabia we've a

you can reference in my statement where we stand with russia's actions. >> uss that russia makes the to reconstitute a large-scale chemical weapon production capability, or do you think it's goal is the smaller scale program that allows it to carry out a tax like the one that recently happened in the united kingdom. i would be interested in both your opinions. >> i don't anticipate they will continue. as we saw from the attacks, continue to expand from technologies as well. >> would you agree that there is a distinction between a large-scale production in terms of capability, to improve and deploy chemical weapons as opposed to the ability to carry out small-scale attacks? >> i would agree. >> i would agree with that as well. i would also think that anything that the russians do in the area of chemical weapons, they will do with a clear intent to try to hide what they are doing, from detection. and i think the results of the attack in saulsberry earlier this year, was an absolutely atrocious demonstration of regardless of whether they had large or small arsenals, the willingness to a

this is due to the news live from berlin nuclear talks in russia in the drafts of a new arms race the united states dispatches its national security advisor to moscow for tough talks on arms control that's after washington says it is ready to withdraw for him and his store treaty on intermediate range missiles. also coming up german chancellor angela merkel says she is ready to suspend arms exports to saudi arabia critics have condemned riyadh for the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. also coming up the terrible choices facing families fleeing syria. i stopped going to school and it's been great because i got engaged my mother noticed him he came and told her that he wanted me and now that. we're going to tell the story of a syrian child bride living in london on a mother seems marrying off for a fourteen year old as the only option to pay the bill. and donald trump's worst nightmare thousands of migrants from central america march towards the u.s. border they've reached mexico but trump says he could deploy the army to stop them from getting any. time soon it's almost gone but i

low yield variants launched ballistic in cruise missiles in russia. in russia putin announced the three doomsday weapons which were response to the us withdraw from the a.b.m. treaty you know russian the us are already modernizing their nuclear arsenals and engaging in reckless rhetoric where they're talking up the utility in the use of nuclear weapons and that is hugely hugely dangerous for global security especially when there are huge there's a huge risk of mis perhaps a perception between the two countries miscalculation are these are new risks that we didn't have in the in the coal cold war and this is hugely dangerous let's bring in dimitri go in moscow it's hugely dangerous as muscle down than in london however is it time for your own security sake for moscow's for russia's security sake to put nuclear weapons back into poland is that something that the i.n.f. treaty if the u.s. pulls out is going to happen. well russia has already said that we will do our best to preserve the treaty we have been appealing to the united states to the european u

the city like all of russia was struggling. boris yeltsen's government of democratic reformers thought to transform a failed state run economy into a capitalist system. yeltsen initiated the mass privatization program in 1992 to help spur the process. american born investor bill broader moved to moskow in the mid-1990s and ran his capital, the largest hedge fund in russia. >> over a period of about three years they effectively transferred all state property away from the state to private citizens. the intention was to give it broadly to everybody. but in reality 22 people had enormously valued assets from the government for nothing, often illegally and ended up becoming sputacklerly rich. >> some of of putin's colleagues moved onto jobs in moskow. by august 1996 he also began working for the yeltsen government and quickly began climbing the kremlin ladder. >> he was someone who understood the way people ticked and putin figured out a way to get into the senior ranks of yeltsen's leadership. >> if you're loyal, if you can get th