and russia. a mouse public backlash about against one of the it's going to become protests of prime minister current foreign secretary jeremy hunt so often he finds opposition labor party to jeremy corbyn to anti semitism and even auschwitz the trouble. was that germany is in a grip all the heat wave which has also triggered a prime way you think putting a large punch up this twinkled.

russia. and the european union all at the same time and strong said bolton we want to fight wars all simultaneously all over the world ok that's a losing proposition yeah but you know also. in 2014 when the u.s. was able to put pressure and come in syrup to it but that was by their own words by the way to twist europe's arm in order to accept sanctions on russia this was under the bomb administration which was more measured since then what is up in the world americans are pushing their peons trying to twist their arm again to go against a trade war against the chinese they're pushing them to target the iranians to break the treaty they also help trying to get aboard with the venezuela which hasn't really panned out to rebel so and also now of course putting sanctions against europeans themself or at least raising tire of so is so is all this new frontline so i think for their opinions to keep all keep open the front line against the russia you know in unity with united states it's i think it'

russia relations remain in the deep freeze europe is taking a different path when it comes to russia some are calling it the new thaw also china calls out the u.k. regarding hong kong indeed old colonial habits die hard. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow and he is a professor of the higher school of economics as well as author of the decay of western civilization and the resurgence of russia and we're also joined by marcus papadopoulos in london he's the editor of politics 1st magazine our gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to markets in london an interesting phenomenon that's been going on now for a number of months or maybe since the election of donald trump but we have we just recently had blood and we are putin in italy meeting the pope in a tally and leaders of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe that i'm a big fan of the organization has finally given the russian delegation. voting rights back and other. elements that have to do with their membership

russia and they did. it gave an opportunity to the best so the rest. which was an old sense but for the rest well it's in the us union they are still suffering some won't be know yet so you ask ask the polish ask all farmers ask them what happened to them ok exactly you know you know and. glenn i mean i have been in a bizarre way actually been a supporter of the of the saying sions because of the reasons that mark has just told us i mean how they lived here for so long and up to 2014 i heard successive governments saying we need reform we need to modernize we need to do so many things in 2014 the gauntlet was thrown down they had to do all of those things that marcus just told us this is made russia stronger and russia's position musician is stronger and interesting lee as marcus pointed out u.s. policy is driving china and russia together and now as we say in this program here it's pushing europe to be closer to russia this is a net feel for the united states of play wanted to take on china and russia and the european union all at the same time and st

russia council will take. us we will like the conditions the preconditions for these new dialogues and forums to be established. now will give the floor to the russian journalists. receive as you would near news agency the floor. i had to put in you get out and then again with my name is when i was a cobra you might have had a little question is that you have got both that it is i'd like you to use that. relations between russia and me of the e.u. . and you can relations union that would be improved you need to be changed and the only countries are told when you go there are some decisions. about the base and the changing situations and neurobiology and. taking into account that there are now new leaders of many european institutions and the european council do believe there are prospects for change and my question is my question to mr. how big a broken it's a little a in this process maybe it can play a more important or more driving role in this process thank you. well it's not exactly up to us it's not all

over something that russia has nothing absolutely nothing to do with i agree russia has nothing to do is go real about russia has to do something with a military base which is you know in 40 kilometers from separate them from japan this is capital of georgia for example yes i think yes russian been making this point for us but russian authorities overreacted by this russian authorities this russian government on our side it was ordinary people young generation once again that's not our government that's young generation that's what they doing all the emotions but look if the russian people were to take to the streets here in moscow chanting sexually explicit and sexually offensive slogans about your president. i would expect the leadership of my country to at least say that this is not appropriate and this has nothing to do with a diplomat democratic expression this is basic decency are indeed georgians bound by it when it comes to russia well you know actually i don't see any reason why i would rush why would or new russian chant anything about our president because our president has

he is imposed real cost on russia for the misdeeds cutting down on the ability of russia to operate inside our country. and in particular department of homeland security has spatial capabilities in all 50 states for protecting malign activity. with the security advisors all across the country operates thert national cybersecurity and communications integration center to support the election infrastructure and information sharing and analysis center. dhs offer cybersecurity assessments protection and prevention tools and training and career development for election officials free of charge. and using the hundreds of millions of dollars congress sends to the states, the authorities actually conduct the elections on the front lines need to be better prepared. this is a long list of significant achievements that my democratic colleagues applauded and cheered behind closed doors when the administration briefed us a few weeks ago. but in public works in public? in front of the cameras? some of my colleagues quickly pivoted with hysterical accusations to only fan the flames of this modern-day of

world of business and economics this week 3 decades after the collapse of the soviet union putin's russia is in gauging with africa to increase more than its political clout . missile systems that could still open turkey's economy we look at the economics behind the s. 400 and the f. 35 stealth bomber. and as google prepares to launch its challenger in the games industry we find out if it could be game over for the likes of sony and microsoft. so as the soviet union imploded it turned its back on the african continent in the 1990 s. but now under president putin russia is making a push to engage the reason is simple western sanctions the pivot to china hasn't been a huge success and hopes of billions of dollars in investment from the middle east haven't arrived in the quantities expected plus african votes count in the united nations. russia's trade with africa rose 26 percent to $17400000000.00 in 2017 moscow doesn't have the financial power of beijing just in 2017 trade with africa amounted to 170000000000 dollars the u.s. is of course worried its trade with subsaharan africa was $39000

to russia now or at least 6 people have been injured after a fire broke out at a thermal power station northeast of moscow huge flames could be seen in gulf in the facility within $100.00. when 50 firefighters were deployed to put out the blaze. now france has passed a controversial tax bill against large tech firms which the u.s. says unfairly targets american companies the tax is the 1st from a major economy to be imposed on companies like google apple facebook and amazon the 3 percent levy will apply to any digital company with worldwide revenue of at least $844000000.00 u.s. president donald trump has ordered an investigation into its impact natasha butler has more from paris with a friend finance minister bruno lemaire had some very strong words in the senate he said effectively that france doesn't take very kindly to threats from the united states now speaking in the senate that have passed this new digital tax law it's imposes 3 percent tax on huge tech firms that are making more than $800000000.00 worldwide but they have revenues of more than $30000000.00 in france and i said t

all these things where was russia and russian secret services. busy russia's reaction after the members of georgia to the store georgia's independence and to to prevent this country from getting closer or with with europe and with the worse and that was the choice of the georgian population again there what's happened last week is you're only one more months one. of these many years of position between russia and georgia i don't want to hear you say that putin then gave his own version of history but one of the things that he did do was push back on the duma when they wanted to impose sanctions against georgia so problem must go can you explain that to me what's the rationale for for going against parliament and saying no no let's not impose sanctions on mineral water and wine and remittances and let's rather continue pursuing and better relations with georgia after you've been insulted in that way. well putin said this journalist doesn't matter that he is just kind of a journalist but him say what he wishes and in general is trying to put a good

but now under president putin russia is making a push to engage the reason a simple western sanctions the pivot to china hasn't been a huge success and hopes of billions of dollars in investment from the middle east haven't arrived in the quantities expected plus african votes count in the united nations. russia's trade with africa rose 26 percent to $17400000000.00 in 2017 moscow doesn't have the financial power of beijing just in 2017 trade with africa amounted to 170000000000 dollars the u.s. is of course worried its trade with subsaharan africa was $39000000000.00 in 2017 and this is what russia is doing in africa it has oil and gas deals with algeria egypt ghana nigeria and mozambique it has nuclear deals in place with rwanda zambia and south africa although that is in limbo while it is a big supplier of arms to egypt algeria sudan and angola moscow is increasing support across the continent that's not a comprehensive list by any means but let's get more on russia's interest in africa now joining me from london is charles robinson chief global economist and head of macro strategy

russia specifically but not just russia china iran venezuela any country that doesn't come crawling to on hands and knees in front of washington and to kiss the ring is regarded as a quote threat. and since russia is the foremost military power that is not under the control of the united states and that's why we've seen things like the expansion of nato and something like this which is kind of a and information analogue to nato expansion which is to try to ensure domination of europe and to isolate russia as much as possible. barrister cherie blair the wife of former u.k. prime minister tony blair has appeared in artie's going underground to discuss her role in a frantic legal battle after she helped release a russian business woman who is facing a decade of hard labor in kuwait. somebody convicted and absconded marcia who's been under investigation this has been hanging over their head and since 2012 she's been actively pursued by the authorities since 2015 so much so that she's been on bail when she was on bail and her american green card expired she wasn't able to go and go to th

are all these things where was russia and russian secret services. russia's reaction after the members of georgia to the store georgia's independence and to to prevent this country from getting closer or with with europe and with the worse and that was the choice of the georgian population again there what's happened last week is your only one more months one. of these many years of position between russia and georgia don't want to hear you say that putin then gave his own version of history but one of the things that he did do was push back on the duma when they wanted to impose sanctions against georgia so problem must go can you explain that to me what's the rationale for for going against parliament and saying no no let's not impose sanctions on mineral water and wine and remittances and let's rather continue pursuing and better relations with georgia after you've been insulted in that way. well putin said this journalist doesn't matter that he is just kind of a journalist and we had him say we're out here wishers and in general is trying to put

meanwhile russia is working to expand its influence in the region. the putin regime seeks to erode u.s. influence in the south com area of responsibility and doubled down on its efforts to prop up corrupt authoritarian regimes in venezuela, cuba and nicaragua through economic and military assistance. for many years putin has viewed latin america as a natural link in the chain making up a mul multipolar world and recent port visits by russian navy vessels and the deployment of a long-range bomber to the region highlight russia's efforts to strengthen its global reach in a new age of great power competition. in fact, just a couple of weeks ago, the admiral gorescov was docked in havana harbor. finally drivers of migration including violence, corruption and poverty play significant strain on regional governments and can engender regional instability impacting not only the southern border of the united states but providing additional flash points for china and russia to exploit at the expense of american soft power. all of this demonstrates clearly that

and russia. a massive public backlash rots against one of the 2 month dawning to come british prime minister current foreign secretary jeremy hunt often ties opposition labor party to jeremy pope and to on to some to some even auschwitz atrocities. plus job unease in the grip of a heat wave triggering a crime wave including a large punch up i just swimming pool.

georgians see as the occupation long after the war with russia in 2008. hello again well tropical storm barry has made landfall here in louisiana and it's going to be bring still some very heavy rain across much of the region we're going to be seeing louisiana mississippi arkansas into parts of tennessee as well under flood risk over the next few days now the satellite you can see it when the system made landfall but take a look at the rain here across the region i just mentioned so the flood warnings are going to be affecting millions in this area and if you remember much of this area is still saturated and the flooding is going to come very easily across many regions so for sunday rain here across much of the southeast as we go towards monday the storm actually begins to dissipate but the rain with it will continue across much of this area and slowly make its way towards the north out here towards the northeast so looking quite nice for boston in new york with the temps there about 29 degrees where heavy rain is going to be a big problem here across par

russia. the u.s. says it's concerned that a planned tax on tech giants and farms will unfairly target american companies any digital company with a revenue of more than $844000000.00 of which at least 20 $8000000.00 is made in france would be subject to the tax the french government argues that companies shouldn't be exempt from paying their headquarters the based elsewhere a french parliament is expected to approve the new tax on thursday now the battle of the what the boycott divestment and sanctions movement against israel is intensifying there israeli government has reportedly enlisted its intelligence agency to counteract the palestinian led campaign against israeli oppression now some academics who backed the movement said they're being targeted in the so-called what charmed by right wing nationalists how a force that reports from occupied east jerusalem. in january this video of a university professor arguing with a student over her decision to her army uniform to class turned into a major cont

this week russia's defense minister has now revealed where the but i stopped. to a solution the main cause of the incident has been established it was a fire in the battery compartment which then spread religion. comes in what condition is the nuclear reactor the reactor on the vessel is completely isolated and the area has been cleared of people the crew carried out all the necessary measures to protect the installation it is fully operational this gives us hope that we will be able to repair the vessel in a fairly short time. the atmosphere here in the city of moments because gloomy it's in the air it's in people's faces the expressions you'll be hard pressed to find a family here and more months without relatives or a sailor in the navy so the strategy has struck everyone personally it has really affected people here over russia there are commemorative services being held in churches all over russia people expressing their condolences laying flowers we've had condolences pouring in internationally the pope has expressed his sincere condolences to those that

to reduce your opinion regis dependency on russia u.s. sees assistance will include working with individual states to create effective legal and regulatory frameworks and assisting them to join will function in local and regional energy markets. there it is the crux of it hiding in plain sight american shale over russian gas more expensive more cumbersome more political yet it's full of freedom freedom gas they said that i have no idea how they do it with a straight face. increasing export capacity from the freeport l.n.g. project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving america's allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy it's a whole package money to the media which cries russian wolf money to politicians who get the american way money to lobbyists they get a nice little kick back from selling american gas and moscow course isn't happy the term countering is a clumsy attempt to conceal the aggressive offensive approach this conception is blatantly aimed at propagating risa phobia in the world espec

relation to russia. increased very much the military budget germany and there's a moment there is the investigation committee launched on her sort of cause but that's all external units risk. people from outside the ministry of the summer of 200000000 euro. maritime piracy that's how iran described a seizure of its oil supertanker by british marines it happened on thursday off the southern tip of the iberian peninsula near gibraltar and british territory disputed by spain to iran condemns what it sees as an illegal detention and demands the immediate release of the vessel. an iranian foreign ministry official described the u.k. moves on acceptable and called for the immediate release of the oil tank of given that has been seized at the request of the u.s. the u.k. navy's measure is tantamount to maritime piracy britain has no right to impose its own unilateral sanctions or those of the european union in an extra territorial manner against the other countries this is the very bullying policy of the u.s. .

city to move on the part of president putin's russia and what what does what does russia get out of this obviously they've got a foothold a foothold within nato territory but what else is russia that house at this range at the. yes well we should say it again is a broader context i'm in in the night is i rather have been very involved looking and retreated from what a lot of it is it's international commitment level and it was from allies well the left to hang out to dry yeah so i've lost a lot of his absence abroad lies felt let down by them so now after 25 years the tables have reversed america retreated into all of their own internal agenda and has been retreating fruit quite a lot of african gauge console it is a gauge was given to controversial are very much like sanctions on criticizing the allies which was a must start space to act and it started right then in plate away and started to get traction right so every little helps if you can play a role in middle east infrastructure and then have something to contribute politically economically or socially or weapons wife but something

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russia specifically but not just russia china iran venezuela or any country that doesn't come crawling to on hands and knees in front of washington and to kiss the ring is regarded as a quote threat. and since russia is the foremost military power that is not under the control of the united states and that's why we've seen things like the expansion of nato and something like this which is kind of a and information analogue to nato expansion which is to try to ensure domination of europe and to isolate russia as much as possible. a 6 year old boy in the u.s. state of texas has been caught up in a bitter custody battle between his divorced mother father and the fact that his parents count agree on which gender the child should be identified as makes the case even more complicated if you're a boy right now. when with his mother the boy you know and as james lives as a girl named luna the mother refers to james exclusively as her and say as it was the child to express that interest in wearing girls' clothes and even enrolled james in school under the female e r t who was sophie shevardnadz

russia specifically but not just russia china iran venezuela any country that doesn't come crawling to on hands and knees in front of washington and to kiss the ring is regarded as a quote threat. and since russia is the foremost military power that is not under the control of the united states and that's why we've seen things like the expansion of nato and something like this which is kind of a and information analogue to nato expansion which is to try to ensure domination of europe and to isolate russia as much as possible lemon is post one of the mosco timex protests erupted overnight in the georgian capital tbilisi the anchor of an opposition t.v. channel the voice to stream of insults against the russian president vladimir putin has caused real stir in our studio in the cross this one today well always centered in russia was high that russia quick to react obviously but this spots been going on for a bit in light of some plane suspensions coming today tell us all well 1st of all that video for obvious reasons we're not going to show it on the air but it was all over the interne

city to move on the part of president putin's russia and what what does what does russia get out of this obviously they've got a foothold a foothold within nato territory but what else is russia that house at this arrangement. yes well we should say it again is a broader context in up in the night is iran has been very involved looking and retreated from what a lot of it is it's international commitment level and it was from lies. left to hang out to dry yeah so. it lost a lot of its absence abroad lies felt let down by them so now after 25 years the tables have reversed america retreated into all of their own internal agenda and has been retreating prove what a lot of active and gauge console it is a gauge was given to controversial are very much like sanctions on criticizing the allies which was a must start space to act and it started right then in plate away and started to get traction right so every little helps if you can play a role in middle east infrastructure and then have something to contribute politically economically or socially or weapons wife but something which is not le

also this hour russia's defense minister says the fire which claimed the lives of 14 sailors on the deep sea submersible broke out in the vessels battery compartment he also gave assurances that the subs nuclear energy installation is secure. and iran warned the u.s. not to start a fire if it can't handle the consequences after trump warned that the islamic republic play with fire its uranium enrichment. they know what to do and they go with the airplane when i think they're playing with fire this thing for the u.s. to correct its mistake bush is afraid of the word fine you can stop war. and germany is in the grip of a heat wave which has also triggered a crime wave including a large brawl at extending full. international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. bottom of puttin is meeting with the pope in vatican city this is the 3rd time russia's president has met pope francis with previous meetings being in 20132015. in rome for the for us with the latest. vladimir putin is visiting to stay in a row within the timeframe of just a couple of

should war with a nuclear power happen and i'm going to primarily use russia as my example today as the most dangerous nuclear threat we face i fully expect 3 lights to lights up on my roots which phone in the office the 1st step in the nightmare scheme would be to team up with nato which he called 1st and foremost a nuclear alliance to send bombers next would be toward the north american aerospace defense command to intercept incoming missiles and finally deploy nuclear submarines for a massive 2nd strike one as discussed this now with our guest journalist martin summers mr summers great to have you with us sir what do you make of the u.s. air force chief publicly detailing the nuclear war scenario here. well in a sense there's nothing new in what he said what's wrong what's what's missing from what he said is that the need the u.s. and nato have a 1st strike doctrine they won't say that they will only use weaponry in a 2nd strike they say they think they have to have strategic ambiguity and they've always said that we will not say that we won't use nuclear weapons 1st so of course

ambassador to russia. his recent book is entitled "from cold war to hot peace: an american ambassador in putin's russia." and malcolm nance, 35 years working in the security field. he's also the author of "the plot to destroy democracy: how putin and his specialiies are dismantling the west." mr. ambassador, you heard robert mueller yesterday. what ran through your mind as you did? >> just the way you set it up, brian. the parts of what's legal or not, you've talked about. he began and ended with the fact that russia attacked us in 2016. they violated our sovereignty in a multiple prong attack designed to influence the course of that presidential election. so far, despite what the president just said now, we've done next to nothing to prevent that in 2020. and i think moving forward, we have to continue to remind your viewers and the american people to put pressure on the trump administration and the u.s. congress to enact the legislation that would protect that vote. >> and malcolm, when most people hear

having a secret real estate deal with russia is not a crime. but if it is potentially a point of leverage and extortion against a candidate and a president, how do we fix that? >> you undergo a vetting process that any responsible transition operation would in the run up to taking office. that didn't happen because as we have been let to believe, the trump campaign didn't think they would be successful and they were playing catch up. they cut a lot of corners for people in the administration. >> they would not be in a position to vet the president. >> fair enough. >> to me, i feel like we are back to the brass tax questions that started the investigation in the earliest stages because of robert mueller's blunt, quick answers to all of the answers today. how did you feel watching it today and thinking about what the country has been able to absorb given your early work on the investigation? >> there were no major revelations, but it was important for the country to hear his clear voiced affirmations of basic things in the hospital if one had the

russians russia's security service and 2 of them have been employed in the past by the g.r.u. which is the militant military intelligence agency here in russia and all 3 seem to have links to the russian backed separatists in ukraine all 3 suspects are currently believed to be still in russia of course russia does not legally they do not extradite their nationals for trials so it's very unlikely that any of the men will attend the trial next year but investigators have said that they will try them in absence if that is the case i what is moscow's position on the downing of emergency. well moscow's position has remained largely unchanged since the. shooting down of the mh 175 years ago they strongly deny any involvement in the horrible tragedy that took place and they also have presented what happened and the investigation into what happened as kind of an anti russian campaign and we've seen that again today there was a foreign ministry statement that came it came out today basically saying look russia is and has always been willing to cooperate with investigators despite the b

international now russia's president vladimir putin is paying a flying visit to rome on thursday where he'll meet with his italian counterpart and also go to the vatican to for talks with the pope speaking to journalists ahead of the trip he stressed the special time tested relations between italy and russia reporting from rome. well it could be these special relations behind why president vladimir putin came to italy back in 25th thing when he wasn't exactly a frequent guest to europe but the e.u. is not what it used to be 5 or 4 years ago different people are in charge of italy known for their euro skeptic policies and also a different approach towards anti russian sanctions so this is definitely going to matter when the talks happened the sanctions though are still of course taking their toll on what's going on between europe and russia so when the journalists of a major italian newspaper caught up with the russian leader a little earlier this week they brought the sanction stalemate up and here's what mr putin said to that as for the removal of sanctions i have spoken on the subjec

yes well if you take western ukraine western ukraine in many ways all be done to russia. it's been a century of ukrainian nationalism. and they would not tolerate they don't want to listen to any view which would improve relations with russia except only in ukraine's terms so they don't want. the exchange between moscow and kiev in russian proposing that better relations with russia is the way forward for ukraine they want ukrainian centered policy which only looks after ukraine interim interest and therefore they're afraid that. this type of a conversation program is not in fact influential floating voters who haven't made up their mind yet so therefore from their point of view from a nationalist part of you they don't want any discussion is predator have no discussion because you might in fact lose a debate martin we're just right out of time i wish we could take a bit deeper into this story but thank you very much for your time martin mccauley aurthur and russia are let's live on the program. ok let's try and fit in one more story really want to talk about this as well

and russia well i'm not so. that pessimistic here i think there's a lot of things in play here all right we've run out of time here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on some real news staying with our team. so the temporary orders that i'm under before i go to final trial actually do allow me to address them as james and his male pronouns but i cannot do that in front of the 3rd parties who know him as a girl so basically i can't go to a school i keep them away from any friends he might have at school at all there's a girl at my home he's known as james and i use male pronouns what i'm prohibited from doing right now is try to convince him that he's actually a boy. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember that it was and most of my family were unemployed. and it wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn'

with russia but in the way. minimizing say that we are used to that and that has never proved to be a deterrent for georgia to continue moving on its past towards the european union because again that's not only a perspective but that's something that is very in the hair and to the georgian nature the culture history georgia feels itself european so it's only going where he sees it should go to russian government because very concerned about the safety of the russian citizens recently the government becomes so concerned all that even stop the flights to. the shouldn't take everything gets a face value we've had since the war and that's very interesting and it's something that maybe we have not and but we've had to last year i think 1700000 russian tourists in georgia and the war was in 2008 so it's very recent and we have an occupation in line at 40 kilometers from p.c. despite that there has not been a single incident involving any russian tourists in georgia on the country i think that the reaction of the russ

police in russia have detained dozens of people as the opposition rallied against its exclusion from moscow's mayoral election in september the effective candidates say they've been excluded from the vote on political grounds but city hall says they didn't gather enough signatures to be eligible for the race in the 1st place. floods and mudslides caused by heavy rain have left a trail of destruction across northeastern india killing at least a dozen people officials say the disaster has displaced at least one and a half 1000000 people in the region and many homes in the northeast a state of some are submerged. homemade rafts bring people to what's left of their flooded homes the high water rushed in overnight taking many here in northeastern india by surprise the floods have left hundreds of thousands of people homeless farmers can only try to save themselves and their livestock. the entire region is under water. there are 52 villages here and the government has been nowhere to help. heavy monsoon rains turned the brahmaputra river into a torrent that swept almost everything away the

give us i know overview if you will what do you think russia's intentions are towards georgia. well russia has proceeded with this policy of workers' sation which essentially means moving the occupation lie in both south that saudia and up. into georgian territory and this at the same time as its government tries to normalize official diplomatic relations between tbilisi and moscow out so there's a bit of a 2 step a parallel process going on here in reality then with jurors are being cut off from their livelihoods as you just reported on in the setup piece but at the same time the government is trying to normalize relations and pretend as if things are moving in the right direction unfortunately georgian society doesn't see it that way and so over the past 2 weeks we've had unprecedented street protests in tbilisi against russian occupation and precisely against this notion that somehow normalization and proceed as if russian were not occupying the country when clearly it is and it is not misstating people's lives especially in those border regions near south city and a possibl

all these things where was russia and russian secret services. russia's reaction after the members of georgia to the store georgia's independence and to to prevent this country from getting closer or with with europe and with the worse and that was the choice of the georgian population again there what's happened last week is your only one more months one. of these many years of position between russia and georgia don't want to hear you say that putin then gave his own version of history but one of the things that he did do was push back on the duma when they wanted to impose sanctions against georgia so problem can you explain that to me what's the rationale for for going against parliament and saying no no let's not impose sanctions on mineral water and wine and remittances and let's rather continue pursuing and better relations with georgia after you've been insulted in that way. well putin said this journalist doesn't matter that he is just kind of a journalist and we had him say work here wishes and in general is trying to put a good policem

first, russia did interfere in the 2016 elections. every tillage insurgency, everyone who's looked at this is 100% clear that russia interfered. number two, a and attempt to interfere in the 2020 election

on tech arms rules imposed conflict syria and it seems russia and turkey do not agree on how to split northern syria civilians are paying the price for their. beirut. some news from somalia now where at least 10 people have been killed in an attack on a hotel in the port city of his mayor the victims include 2 journalists but he's of when the death toll rises fighting is continuing inside the s.s. a hotel between gunmen and security forces and officers said most of the victims were patrons of the hotel which is often frequented by lawmakers and local officials al-shabaab rubbles of time responsibility for the attack. members of the u.s. house of representatives of called the trumpet ministrations treatment of migrants a policy of dehumanization is part of the testimony given at a congressional hearing looking into the state of migrants of federal detention centers they describe deplorable conditions after visiting the facilities of president donald trump has said the reports of mistreatment phony and exaggerated well u.s. president trump has also declared a state of emergency in louis

plan to have this coalition in iran but it's not likely to go down very well here because russia has been urging european nations to stick to the nuclear deal and this of course is a concern that some european nations could join this u.s. coalition on tuesday alexander left for empty of the special envoy for syria here in russia have seen that with some kind in iran the head of the national security council there to discuss and to confirm russia's position being the strong ally of iran it has asked that if the interest of iran are ignored then there can be a new regional stability and also this maximum pressure being pushed by the united states on iran is not beneficial for anyone so basically russia has gone from this strong deja ally but the other hand there are some reports about some cracks between the 2 countries especially on their cooperation in syria in recent weeks of course the interests of the of russia and iran of very different in syria for russia for goods and it's more putting pressure and influence on the middle east and increasing its role there for iran it's a very

russia in the process. the second volume addresses another question that's just as explosive. whether or not the president obstructed justice. >> it was a complete and total exoneration. >> roll one begins with a sobering description of russia's attempts to influence the election. the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and system issic fashion. >> it influenced the election. that should be chilling for every american. >> reveals how the operation pursued goals on two fronts. social media propaganda to d disrupt and divide the voting public and a series of sophisticated criminal cyber attacks on democratic party systems. >> it was the cyber warfare and information warfare equivalent of this country. >> investigators traced the operation to this nondiscrypt office building in russia. the internet research agency was actually a russian troll farm with close tie tots kremlin. its mission, turn out fake content to attract and influence american audiences. >> they want to