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

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

russia relations remain in a deep freeze and europe is taking a different path when it comes to russia some are calling it the new thought 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 for us magazine gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate 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 not 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 membe

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

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

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

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

relation to russia. increased very much the military budget germany and there's a mormon service that investigation committee launched on her salt god but. external years. people from outside the ministry of the summer of 200000000 euro. maritime piracy that's how iran describes they see either of its oil supertanker by british marines that happened on thursday off the southern tip of their barren peninsula near to broader british territory disputed by spain terrine condemns what it sees as an illegal detention and demands the immediate release of the vessel and iranian foreign ministry official described the u.k. move is unacceptable and called for the immediate release of the oil tanker given that has been seized at the request of the u.s. the u.k. navy's measure is turn to mount 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 us. gibraltar's c

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 do and 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 and get a nice little kick back from selling american gas 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 especial

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

this is for russia. that may be the case but georgia's leaders were reluctant to openly attack russia at this event that parliament's head of european integration was sent out to face questions denying claims by protesters that georgia's government had become too lenient towards russia. pro russian what do you say to. that. that it doesn't actually require any further with russia or is really concerned about your presence in. this. georgia very western. we would like to find ourselves eventually within the european jews in one of the debates parliamentary leader spoke of russia as an occupying force for junior russian. i don't know you. 20 percent of our territories it means permanent threat. territories later came the signing of financial agreements between georgia and e.u. states but as the ink dried on deals worth $53000000.00 there was no disguising the anxiety about russia's actions against this country if conference delegates were to take a short stroll down to the beach front here they get a reali

so we have russia coming in to make money. we have a leader of the united states senate who seems more interested in putting as many right wing judges on the court as possible, keep the pen in donald trump's hands, he seems less interested in stopping these kinds of things. >> yeah, but you have to understand these kinds of things work for his base constituency. this is what's amazing about the republican party today. the republican party are literally commie lovers. okay? they talk about democrats being socialist, they love ex-kgb officer, former communist and his allies who are all communists, now dropping money in their districts to buy their politicians. they love kim jong-un. a north korean dictator communist. they have no problem with doing business on an equal level, allowing emoluments clause violations by donald trump's children with china, a communist run autocrasy. they don't care if the money comes to their districts, they'll take commie money, then they'll go off and call anyone that opposes that anti-american. th

and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up south korea says russia has expressed regret for violating its airspace during a joint patrol with china. iran warns that any attempt to form an international coalition to protect shipping in the gulf only bringing in security to the region. and today much of washington has been waiting for a preview the congressional testimony by former special counsel robert muller jew in the coming hours. boris johnson is set to become the new british prime minister in the coming hours johnson won the conservative party's leadership contest on tuesday and he's pledged to take the u.k. out of the e.u. by the end of october in his words do or die but he also needs to unite a divided policy and an even more polarized nation needs baka reports. it was a 2 horse race but there's only ever being one front runner boris johnson demolished his rival foreign secretary jeremy hunt with double the number of votes to become leader of the conservatives and on wednesday the country has now repair a party and a nation torn apart by bricks it deliver bricks it un

moscow is russia's richest region. every year, the city government spends around $60 million sending orphans and children from low—income families on a summer holiday. it is roughly the same amount as the annual budget of a medium—sized russian city. annually, around 60,000 moscow children go to holiday camps for free. valentina's son, zhenya, was one of the children sent to the syamozero summer camp in karelia in 2016. the region borders finland, and is famous for its beautiful lakes and rainforests. masha makarova was 12, and a professional swimmer. the children who survived said that when their boat overturned, masha was helping people to reach the shore. the water was only 12 celsius, and masha died of hypothermia. after the tragedy, several criminal investigations were launched. the victims‘ parents didn't see much progress. they asked lawyer dmitry lapin to help them. he carried out his own investigation. as a result of these findings, six people ended up on trial. the director of the camp and her deputy, t

russia which is usually very divided but they also told me that this is really about much much more than moscow they said that everyone in the whole country is looking to moscow now and they need to show that russians are prepared to fight for their democratic rights and just give us a sense of what how much the opposition has in russia. well that's always really hard to say rebecca what i can tell you is that support for the ruling united russia party is dropping one of the state pollster is this month found that it reached just over 32 percent that's a record low the lowest number that they've found since 2006 and that's one of the reasons why the united russia party candidates are actually running as independents in these upcoming moscow elections they don't want that label even to be attached to them and i think you can really sense that across the country there have been protests about a variety of other issues as well in the north of the country there were protests against a planned garbage dump there were protests against the unpopular pension reform so really dissatisfaction

but this production deal would not have been possible without russia i mean russia really does appear to have the upper hand and has effectively been handed control of the oil cartel as it well let's face it the biggest burden is carried by saudi arabia saudi arabia one still have a broad coalition because they feel otherwise it's really only down to them and so they're working very hard to bring a lot of different players to the table and having russia being part of it is for them instrumental because it gives the impression there is a wider group of players that are ready to cut and so everyone lifting a little bit helps but saudi arabia really needs high oil prices to balance its budget russia doesn't so so why would russia or agree to this yeah that this is interesting i mean we have seen over time the different ideas about what the price would be we know that president putin has a different point in time stated that he would be happy with $60.00. and out of this statement we know that he has been relatively unhappy with prices going higher especially his oil companies are telling

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.

and russia. the meeting was good business like we discussed the home of interest to russia and the united states and we had a discussion we had a great actually we had a great discussion president whether it was really a tremendous discussion. on the e.u. who want to see a new payment system to bypass american sanctions against iran in a bid to save the 2015 to deal. with the top stories for the past 7 days and the latest developments well this is the week. and fost up don't trump made history on sunday becoming a foster to u.s. president and to north korea he shook hands with kim jong un in the demilitarized zone before the 2 need just walked across the demarcation line into the north had proposed a meeting just a day in a tweet after speaking for almost an hour and stopping briefly into south korea and kim held it as a breakthrough moment since my honor. i didn't really expect the spirit to pander to 20 we came over. here. we got to. step. out of. president trump has just walked across the dema

russia 2 is now he's made the decision to make sure that russia is no longer a part of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty now that happened in response to a similar move by the us and another question that the italian journalist asked mr putin was whether russia was feeling responsibility for this deterioration in global arms control here's what the russian president replied so that. the breakdown of the system of international security began with the us unilateral withdrawal from the anti-ballistic missile treaty this instrument was the cornerstone of the entire arms control architecture one more fact should be mentioned here last october we proposed a joint statement to the u.s. on the inadmissibility of nuclear war and the recognition of its devastating consequences there has been no response from the u.s. . but before all kinds of conversations with the prime minister and other officials as we've mentioned will head to the vatican to meet pope francis and according to mr putin's advisor it seems that mr putin's views and approaches are similar close or partially identical

russia. and the european union all at the same time and strong said. we want to fight wars all simultaneously all over the world ok that's a losing proposition yeah but also. in 2014 when the u.s. was able to put pressure and come in syrup to it but i was by their own words by the way to twist europe's arm in order to accept sanctions on russia this was on that obama administration which was more measured since then what is up in the world americans are pushing their opinions 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 peons to keep all the keep open the front line against the russia you know in unity with united states it's i think it's correct to po

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 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

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

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

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 new state authority. 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 that know him as 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 there was and most of the family were simply. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. of there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today

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

russia is always irritated by such familiar images. once led the kremlin to ban all direct flights to georgia all the unfamiliar images of anti russian protests every day for more than 3 weeks in the capital tbilisi georgia is president didn't want to talk about russia at the conference but the e.u. council president did russia recently this is the money flight to judge your unjustified. this is professionalism that may be the case but georgia's leaders were reluctant to openly attack russia at this event that parliament's head of european integration was sent out to face questions denying claims by protesters the georgia's government had become too lenient towards russia at the plaza saying nothing to prove the russian want to say it's a. total loss that's why i say. that it doesn't actually require any farther with russia or is really concerned about your presence here with this conference and you have georgia very far western or the truth we would like to find ourselves eventually we think the europeans are in one of the debates par

russia hopes italy can normalize relations with europe again. >> it is not just up to russia. we are ready to do our part as long as artificial obstacles are not put up. they are a process. we are national partners geographically. >> some europeans may take issue with the last bit given vladimir putin said that. today was all about italy and russia. and some interviews he gave before the trip head it was asked about the united states when he said russia is able to have that conversation on strategic issues and he mentioned that to donald trump at the g 20 last week. >> thanks very much. a culture clash at the vatican. let's start with former cia station chief daniel hoffman. great to have you. what is your reader vladimir putin visiting the pope? >> an opportunity for vladimir putin to play a role on the world stage, he is seeking to light of the european union, he sees the opportunity with a country that has traditionally had better relations with russia in contrast to germany for example and i think vladimir putin sees that as an opportunity to break european efforts to main

president obama mocked his 2012 opponent for taking russia too seriously. his administration sought a naive reset with the calendar number, and for -- with the kremlin, and for eight years, i helped lead the charge with that weakness. in 2010, i stood with john mccain and jon kyl to oppose the new start treaty, a watered down place holder for the tough stance we knew was necessary. as vladimir putin was building up his missile arsenal, we even had to push president obama to commit to deploying capable missile defenses to europe. in 2012, i supported sweeping legislation to authorize heavy sanctions following the killing of sergei magnitsky in a russian prison. the obama administration flinched and tried to tiptoe around our legislation to avoid messing up their charm offensive, but we backed them into a corner and the president signed the bill into law. in 2014, i and other republicans constantly pressed president obama to get tougher on russia with respect to putin's aggression in ukraine. so, mr. president, i would ask consent that the news article dated

and he wanted to downplay russia completely. then as you pointed out subsequently, we've seen that message sort of shift. there wasn't -- i didn't do anything wrong, nothing happened. there was, well, if it happened, it would be fine. and that was basically an invitation for foreign adversaries to engage. we heard from robert mueller, one thing he made clear on wednesday is the efforts by russia were meant to aid trump and he knows that. >> clint, i want to come back and end the block with you because you're the scariest guy at the table and i feel like we should be filled with foreboding doom here. was he probing vulnerabilities, maybe they were proeting vulnerabilities because they want ut to exploit them later but maybe they want us to know they're probing vulnerabilities for cy ops. you don't have to change votes to get in the system. i wonder -- the reason i think it's relevant is they did so many things that were easily detectible. they didn't cover their tracks. when you look at it do you think what's so insidious about t

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

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

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.

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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

it's always been about russia, those of us who worked on are are quite alarmed of what russia did, what they're capable of doing, i think director mueller is quite concerned about that. >> one thing he mentioned today, trying to get out of the hearing he had today, he referenced, he said that russia had conducted a concerted attack, an attack is the word he used using military and intelligence elements against the united states. i think that's what this is all really about. that's what we need to stay focused on, i think that's why director mueller was worried about, and why he was willing to go beyond and emphasize that. >> i think -- i agree with you, completely. mueller had bigger fish to fry today. >> his message to congress was, they're doing it right now. and, you know, we -- all of us who have some responsibility to exercise our responsibility swiftly, don't let it linger as we have for so many years. >> and so while he did come out and criticize the president, calling his language on wikileaks problematic, saying you should pick up the phone and report if a foreign entity wanted

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

media the daily mail's got russia in capitals did russia leak the bombshell memos that headline off the sun has written from russia with bugs the mirror also features jeremy hunt quoting hall style state and adds like russia to its headline that is how the media covers the story of the foreign secretary essentially confirming without mentioning russia that the possibility that this was an external hock will be within the scope of the official inquiry looking into it there is clearly a strong desire to get to the bottom of who is behind this because of how embarrassing these leaks have been and how damaging this is for the special relationship it all started on sunday when these e-mails between the u.k. ambassador in washington said kim darrick back to the foreign office leaked to a sunday newspaper herron it is standard practice for diplomats to send very frank assessments of the political situation political situations or the generally the situation in the country that they're serving in so these e-mails were never intended for public consumption and yet thanks to this leak here they a

no cause i think the other thing the whole the whole russia gate scenario is untrue . i think there was i think that there were that the ira the internet research agency engaged in minimal activity to very little effect there is no evidence of a russian government government connection and i don't believe that the russian your you russian military intelligence was responsible for the for the wiki leaks disclosure of thousands of emails in july 2016 so i think the whole story is fallacious although as you and i both know this is going to be the last we've heard of it for now in new york journalist and author daniel as are things we get to know . next then the british ambassador to the united states can direct has announced he's stepping down after a series of highly critical comments that he made about the trumpet ministration which were leaked to the press in confidential cable sent back to officials in london the diplomatic describe the white house as dysfunctional inept and chaotic. since the leak of official documents from this embassy there has been a great deal of

have weighed in on the diplomatic route with russia's foreign foreign ministry saying the seizure is an attempt to aggravate the situation around iran and syria and that the reaction from london and washington shows that the incident had been pre-planned. a professor of political science at the university of tehran points out the seizure of the tanker is all part of a coordinated campaign. and we have to see this incident as part of the larger campaign to pressure iran every few weeks we are seeing major provocations by the americans whether sending drones or warship towards iran and now this incident where the british are actually acting on behalf of the americans and we have to remember why this has been in the legal move by the british this is e.u. law it's not international law so what gives the british the right to seize any iranian share based on european laws iran is not a member of the e.u. since the trump government decided to leave the nuclear accord the americans have been pressuring iran's putting significant pressure on iran and iran has actually been acting in a very re

, russia, russia, but focusing on donald, donald, donald. explain to people the opportunity cost because you have limited time and resources at the committee. what are the congress not doing that they should be doing in the meantime? >> exactly, adam schiff obviously will be in nirvana during all of this, because he has been pursuing at the entire time when he should be pursuing instead of donald trump and his obsession with donald trump as china. iran, russia, north korea, real threats that we have two our country and how they are evolving and what is china doing in hakki, what are the threats to the infrastructure? what is the intelligence committee doing with respect to what iran is doing with their weapons program? what are racing with russia and their attempts to undermine democracies in eastern europe? all of these are areas that our staff should be spending time on. adam schiff should be spending time on, and the committee should be spending time on. it makes us less safe. >> jason: it is absolutely a point that i hope everybody diges

on counting the cost $3.00 decades off the collapse of the soviet union russia is gauging with africa to raise its political clout and we look at the economics behind so he's decision to buy the s. 400 and f. $35.00 stealth bomber counting the cost on a just. it's 50 years since the world watched as u.s. astronauts lost set off on a mission many adults impossible. then modeled as they made the 1st uncertain steps. to join us as we look at the ingenuity and those who made the journey of a 111 possible. 50 years on and the al-jazeera news special. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories today the latest diplomatic efforts to bring iran and the u.s. back to the negotiating table appears to have ended without any major breakthrough at a meeting in brussels e.u. foreign ministers downplayed iran's decision to enrich uranium above the limits of the 2050 nuclear deal but they failed to reach a solution to the growing us iran tensions. american president has once again lashed out at a group of 4 high profile congress women donald trump is demanding an apology for w

russia's defense minister says a naval submarine that caught fire on thursday was nuclear powered that despite the earlier insistence from the kremlin that the details of the vessel would remain classified people have been paying tribute to the 14 sailors who were killed in the 5 that started inside a battery compartment defense officials say the submarine had been studying the arctic sea floor north korea has accused the us serve being hell bent on hostility towards it and of being obsessed with sanctions responding to accusations that breached a cap on petroleum imports north korea's mission to the u.n. issued this statement be united states is frankly more and more hell bent on hostile acts against the d.p. r. k. it is quite ridiculous for the us to continue its pressure campaign considering sanctions as a pen a show for all problems. it's a marked change of tone from these scenes just days ago and became the 1st sitting u.s. president to cross into north korea he met kim jong il the demilitarized zone between north and south korea agreed to resume denuclearization talks heidi jocas

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