she's saying russia, russia, russia. maybe it was. it could be russia, but it could also be china. could also be lots of other people. could also be somebody on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay? >> if we got along well, that would be good. if russia and the united states got along well and went after isis, that would be good. >> on top of all of that, we also now know that multiple trump campaign officials jumped at the chance to work with russian proxies behind the scenes, including the president's son, donald trump jr., who is eager to collect russian dirt on hillary clinton, foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos whose efforts to connect with russia where -- with russian officials before the inauguration, meetings that in every case they either the neglected to disclose or just straight up lied about. joining me now to talk about the status of the case of donald trump's presidential campaign coordinated with the russian government is an esteemed panel of experts. former moscow correspondent at "the guardian," nick ackerman, former assistant special watergate prosecutor

chief among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal onix ation of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not to secure the best possible brics it the day after may's claims the times newspaper alleged russian interference in the brig's it votes one example was a supposedly russian who is profiled didn't fit a typical british political observer yet posted or read tweeted nearly one hundred posts mentioning brags that the political and media scare mongering may have actually had an effect as policy boyko reports in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress at the braggs it talks and the problems facing to raise their maze of government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can pour over the question of how many trolls does it take to incite a revolution not many according to everyone we approached to discuss this story in

is given that russia. is trying to impose itself on the problem and it seems that they have we've given the go ahead haven't them and said to me the u.s. has been is nobody else has told bennett charge. you are right that americans have been passive. they have been sitting in the back seat but we don't know they now are trying to take in the north east of syria and have some bases there and they already don't and we don't know what's going to happen with. this statement from the spokesman in the white house telling direct that confidence in sochi is not going to work because he hinted to the international legitimacy in geneva anyway for the syrians russian intervention is the one thing that prevented from falling down and therefore we can see that russia as an enemy because we know this syrian people is to go back to normal life after forty years of dictatorship they have reported against this and they continue that neither washington or any other form of power is spent to stop them from. so russia. succee

russia's messing around in our election." they really wanted this to be a bipartisan statement of condemnation of moscow's interference. >> narrator: top intelligence officials traveled to capitol hill to tell congressional leaders what they knew. >> they were all there: the speaker, leader pelosi, leader mcconnell, leader reid, the foreign affairs committees, the intel committees. they were all there. and we briefed them on what we knew. >> narrator: senate republican leader mitch mcconnell expressed skepticism about the intelligence, and warned that he would not join an effort to publicly challenge putin. >> they're told by mitch mcconnell, the majority leader of the senate, that, "if you do that, we are going to interpret that as you putting the thumb on the scales for hillary clinton." >> narrator: the meetings were top secret, held behind closed doors. >> in those briefings of congress, some of the individuals expressed concern that this was motivated by partisan interests on the part of the administration. and i took of

russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach of the responsibility russia can russia does not to secure the best possible brics it. the day after may's attack a group of researchers allowed to russia had set up hundreds of accounts to influence the briggs vote our london correspondent looks at the facts behind the allegations in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress at the braggs it talks and the problems facing to raise their maize government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can pour over the question of how many trolls does it take to incite a revolution not many according to everyone we approached to discuss this story in london do you think four hundred twitter accounts from from russia was enough to change the outcome of the referendum here in the u.k. well i think it could i think it could sort of and the could be a lot more yeah i believe there is some of the worst movies and i'm being very careful with my own. where there's smoke there

that sort of news i would like to move on to russia is russia currently a security threat for the u.s. sure it is. russia is the only other nation that possesses the ability not necessarily the will but the ability to destroy the united states or all the other members of the alliance. and their behavior of the last three years since they invaded ukraine has got has raised the concern of everybody including all members of the alliance all members of the european union. and it's it's the kind of thing that i think nobody wants that conflict is not inevitable we all want russia to be a part of the responsible community of responsible. not with their current that they're not on the right path not right now we what we would like to see them back on the path of responsible behavior as a great power and it's a great nation great people great history so many places where we could cooperate with them but they don't cooperate with you anymore well they've not lived up to any agreement that they've signed including minsk and other treaties unless you really put pressure on them to do that that's

and that was partially this from what i understand because russia actually did try to. counterbalance as dependency on oil and gas by sort of. stashing the wind fall income away in various funds it wouldn't say that because if you look at the resource which was your token for the reserves the reserves didn't follow substantial now we we still increase or was that. it was merely because russian government stayed away of the problem the they were out of the good the there will prices fell the the ruble price fell the imports the the exports squeezed to the consumption fell all the parameters for the whole of the question were adjusted to just in the equilibrium and this would probably be moot smart policy or on the overcoming of the crisis of related to the. to the problems with. yourself or to the main focus of your column and on the other side which bill you were talking about the there are sufficient policy of the those this is not limited to the current suppress it it is reflected in the whole structure of the economy when you heard the major of the. the main resource

russia. many of the industrial ties were caught the ukraine is now risking losing income from the gas transit so ukraine has made a lot of sacrifices for what it had cut its ties with russia it's surely hope that it would be embraced by the west more fully not just encouraged but fully embraced and support it it is a ride to the ukrainians wanted it best picture from say european you know in the end but this is not going from monday to the other i think it's always missed the steeled you can become visit once for each member there's a european union you have to fulfill the quotations and then the end and there are a lot of consequences you have already mentioned to you need some time you may arrive to these critiques of the representatives of the european union they're not rightly outspoken about his subject i think they've never contradicted the two of these hopes but they have never been living any decision opening this possibility personally i'm cold winds to might be right off the twenty

russia russia russia. and so the same thing is definitely going to happen probably on a slightly smaller scale in the u.k. do ordinary people believe it i think not but frankly on t.v. and the internet is one of the reasons they don't believe it because they can see that donald trump versus hillary clinton was a quintessentially american is and the idea of bracks it is something that's been plaguing the relations of the major continental european countries with britain for ages from the soviet union arrow straight up to the present day so you can't say that russia which had a revolutionary change of government in this era can somehow be totally consistent and its policy on britain's problems with europe it's totally absurd adam appreciate you coming on to speak to is my guest and i'm gary managing editor at the dot com. the estate may be losing its hold over iraq in syria but it's still inspiring europeans and ever younger ones at that to carry out attacks at home a danish court has extended the sentence o

economy so where does this pressure on russia come from. putin has often said that if there are no ideological differences between capitalism and socialism why is nato expanding eastwards what you want. at the two thousand and seven munich security conference the conflict came into the open boat incognito's eastern enlarge meant a direct threat to russia at the years now but i would feel if you for. a minute with. putin's aim was to create a defensive ring around russia and he intended georgia and ukraine to be part of it . but it is not in the kremlin's opinion that the west has to accept that this is in our national interest that ukraine should belong to the russian protectorate as well as belarus and probably moldova the whole of trans caucasian should be our protectorate as well from the. pentagon our from the newspaper novaya gazeta is known for is critical and often ironic take on russia's leadership but. that's why russia will never let go of ukraine we've got our teeth into it like a bulldog if the west accepts this if there's a yel

refuses to live on russia as. we look at the potential consequences of that decision for the athletes also for. the deposed leader explains all in a rare interview in the launch edition of our new talk show details host alex salmond he felt us bonds marred referendum and. see. the file face. cooled down there are a lot of injuries. the search for alleged russian meddling in the u.k. builds momentum with researchers claiming social media accounts influenced the break said. live from moscow to the world this is r.t. international my names you know neal good to have your company our top story this hour the world doping agency has blocked russia's anti doping agency. from being reinstated after a lengthy scandal calling it non-compliant as far as possible police should be allowed to keep. international sports competitions but in the meantime agreed. compliance for the russian one to do ph and she has been fulfilled in many ways but there are still two issues which remain unfulfilled however want to also said it is coo

push whether it's trying to push russia's strategic defensive winds as far away from russia from the cork as us deeper into the middle east into the mediterranean which is a very strong tradition the russian strategy coming from times of the czars actually but so how do syrians feel about russia basically being given the go ahead to be in the diplomatic driver's seat when it comes to peace in the country i don't think she knows given that russia. is trying to impose itself on the problem and it seems that they have we've given the go ahead haven't them and said to me the u.s. has said that iran is nobody else will believe that charge. you are right that americans have been passive. they have been sitting in the back seat but we don't know they now are trying to take in the north east of syria and have some bases there and they already don't and we don't know what's going to happen with. this statement from the spokesman in the white house telling direct that confidence in sochi is not going to work because he hinted to the international legitimacy in geneva anyway for the syrians rus

of state sponsored doping which russia always said and always denied in fact russia was very clear in saying that there wasn't enough proof in that report and there wasn't enough head of evidence and one of the conditions for result is requirement reinstatement requirements was that the russian authorities publicly accept mclaren's findings and that's despite a clash of opinions that we have there. actually if we go back to september twenty seven water did clear ninety five athletes in fact of doping due to lack of evidence and also the president himself president putin he did come out and say and acknowledge that there was a problem with doping he denied the state sponsored doping let's have a quick listen to what he said and some of. the main thing is that we have to listen to the results of the independent commission despite flaws in its work we have to listen to one of those demands because we have to admit that we have confirmed cases of doping use which is absolutely unacceptable this means that the anti doping control system which we had until now hasn't worked and it's our fau

as the war in syria really almost over syria's president visits russia to thank his allies for their sacrifices they say victory is close and are talking about a political solution how likely is that with the badly divided opposition and rebel areas still bombarded by as strikes this is inside story. i know that i'm oracle welcome to the program he's thanks them for their sacrifices and for saving his country so as president bashar al assad has flown to russia for a few hours to meet his major hussan the kremlin says russia's president told him that the fight against all md groups is close to finishing and once is over finding a peaceful political settlement will be key is that achievable the opposition has long demanded a future syria without assad but he survived nearly seven years of war and is likely to remain in charge for the foreseeable future publicly for the coming we just had a meeting with president vladimir putin and i passed greetings and gratitude to him and to the people of russia for the efforts which russia put in saving our country i particularly emphasized the role

first, on russia. we have some very mixed signals in the last 24 hours where the president stands on this issue of russian meddling. >> reporter: that's right, boris. make no mistake, there were no apologies or regrets from the president when he was asked these questions at a news conference yesterday, asked about whether or not he agrees with the u.s. intelligence community's assessment that russia meddled in the election. he begrudgingly said he agreed with the intelligence community, but he did not walk back that stinging criticism of people like jim clapper and so on, who he referred to as liars and hacks, in that discussion with reporters on air force one. the president at one point during this news conference also sort of loudly complained about the sanctions that are still on russia, despite the fact that there's ongoing investigation into russia meddling in the 2016 election, here's what the president had to say about that. >> people don't realize, russia has been heavily sanctioned. they were

russia, syria, and iran. host: what about russia and its disruptive role in all of this? guest: certainly, as we were saying, the ukraine crisis is something that requires attention. there are sanctions on russia for its incursion into ukraine. there is an envoy, the u.s. envoy, who is working quietly. there is the potential to work on a deal for the ukraine. this has been costly for russia. they have had casualties. they have not publicized -- the russian public is not happy when their soldiers are not declared to be in a place and come home in body bags. in syria, there is a fascinating situation where russia appears to be taking the lead in working out a diplomatic settlement. russia is in support of the assad regime, but is willing to broker a deal in which elections will be held. that doesn't necessarily mean syria, thatder of is very much credibly accused of major war crimes against his own people in the civil war there, doesn't mean assad will be leaving power. nevertheless, russia is taking the lead w

first czarist russia and then soviet russia. how does a nation survived that kind of century? after the revolution, it would take five years and a brutal civil war before the bolsheviks conquered the russian far east. the decisive battle was near kha barovsk. there is a giant panoramic painting of it at the local museum. soviet mythology painted the reds as triumphant heroes, the anti—communist white army deservedly crushed. in songs and poems, in paintings and propaganda, the message was clear. the reds were on the right side of history. but this version of history is crumbling, just like the battle site memorial to the red heroes. that is because, as russia today reinterpret its history come the official view of the past is changing. and as it changes, communist heroes become fallen idols. the tsar becomes a saint and the great 0ctober socialist revolution, red 0ctober, becomes a dark chapter in russian history. in this school museum, which is open to the public, they display guns and bayonets unearthed in the forest. they try not to take sides on red or white, but not eve

in the green of all appear on russia today programs so you know. if it's good enough for john mcdonnell jeremy corben die and john redwood crispin blunt liam fox in black for vince cable in color and look at this that i can probably. stand there to criticism that the the experience does well and he's already having to stand the thought of criticism he was expecting there with headlines bashing and examines choice to hear on r.t. the british daily the times for example didn't hold back. mr salmon service for the propaganda outlets of a hostile foreign autocracy does indeed evinced our lack of judgment self-respect and shame and even the current leader of the scottish national party salman's own party expressed her dad. had i been asked which i was in i would've advised them to seek another channel to hear the sure and of course alec is not currently an elected politician and he's free to meet can whatever decisions he wishes to meet well i found that slightly odd actually because normally the scottish national party the party of the both members of

is russia's choice to make. russia can continue to isolate and impoverish itself by sowing disorder brought and competing liberty at home or it can become enforceable advanced the freedom of russians and the stability of eurasia. following the presence recent decision regarding our policy toward iran, there is more that binds the united states and europe together then drives us apart. the jc poa is no longer the only point of us policy toward iran. we are committed to addressing the totality of the iranian threat. we ask everyone to help and stand up against this behavior. this is to italian suppression of individual, political and religious freedom. neither the united states or europe one another type of north korean nuclear threat on its hands. nor are any of our nations at ease with iran's attempt in the middle east support for terrorist organizations, militia on the ground in iraq and syria and an active ballistic missile development program. europe's intersection in the region, we know turkey cannot ignore

chief among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal onix ation of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not to secure the best possible brics it now facebook say that they will respond with their information to the committee by early december while twitter says it will respond in the coming weeks and their findings of a case in the u.k. almost exactly mirrors claims of russian meddling in the u.s. in late october the same text testified to congress. we determined that the number of accounts we could link to russia and that were tweeting election related content was comparatively small. aggregate these ads and posts were a very small fraction of the overall content on facebook but any amount is too much . these videos mostly had low view counts. you say lack of resources a lack of commitment and a lack of genuine effort and that just won't do we could we could have done more but i think we are doing more today and have

fault that may have been provoked by russia's own policy but. the thing is it seems that nato is not ready or willing to reciprocate not only because of the fears of provoking russia but the frankly because a few koreans on internal security. economic risks what kind of a relationship do you think the west can now realistically offer to your crane as far as integration or security matters go they gave a repeating what they said to there's no real story at the g. concerning your green with them so you know you're saying they're not adjusted that just the abstract discussion about the valleys but nothing in concrete nothing in complete i think there was never been a real decision worked all folk rave but what is really bored paul to be of always to look there is a product of members of the european union say we can know the office that you do so you agree means because in russia doesn't want it that british are very important they're all for us who have very cautious of this subject but i'm not sure that there was a really precise discussion with

you guys are missing a great presidency, because you're yelling "russia, russia, russia." >> you're juggling a lot there. god love him. it was about the russia investigation. but to his point. >> well, don -- >> you were asked about the week. it's a great week for trump. >> yeah, okay. >> it's a great week. >> it's not been a great week for donald trump. and no amount of spin in the world -- >> there's no spin. >> -- can manufacture that. i agree that the jobs numbers are up, that nasdaq, dow, everything is up. >> five judges. >> i'm not here for those right wing judges because i really do care about criminal justice reform. but i will tell you is you can talk about the job numbers, but that builds on the enormous success of the obama presidency. he has no major legislative accomplishments. the republicans are fighting on the hill about what to do about tax reform. folks are still talking about repealing and replacing obamacare. and this white house is yelling oh, no one has anything to do with collusion or russia and everybody who has ever been on the trump payroll it seems like is being pa

russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not want to secure the best possible brics it. the day after may's speech a group of researchers claimed russia had set up hundreds of accounts to influence the bags of vote artie's point looks into the story for us in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress at the brags it talks on the problems facing to raise their maze of government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media are out and that could be a lot more yeah i believe there is sometimes and this was the way the foreign secretary put it on. the. evidence of the ninety's. but that doesn't matter because if you ask a man months is most likely evidence russia russian territory but that's not the celebrations and he now deleted you. guys says russian bly they're not crafting some story of you have allegations made by someone else who benefits from this there is absolutely specious idea that somebody is going to go thro

i want to build in russia a party after those elections. a strong party, with strong leadership, which for six next years can come to the next presidential elections with a really big result, in order to have evolution and not revolution of the system. it is not accusations harsh on a person. it is accusations with fact, which should be placed. this is what i think is very important. what did you really mean when you said this — "a higher transfer of power, the likes of which mr navalny is advocating, is a dead end"? you say that your ideal transformation would be led by democratic politicians that mr putin can trust, like for example, former deputy pm alexei kudrin. you seem to be saying that actually you prefer putin in power, with some technocrats around him, and more liberal advisers. this is not what i meant. then you would want mr navalny, who you respect so much. ijust said, and i can say once again, that between evolution and revolution i would always choose evolution. and if this way would be done, by putin or by someone else, i

and of russia's bloodiest years. we are giving lessons, most of them, many are what you shouldn't do. but how is the revolution seen in russia today? are their echoes of 1917 in 2017? i am steve rosenberg and i am going on a journey across russia to find out how russians view the revolution. that came to be known as "red october". my my journey begins myjourney begins where the revolution began at the winter palace in saint petersburg. soviet cinema would betray it as russia's bastille moment. the people are led by the bolsheviks, storming the palace and greeting the world's first communist state. the reality was rather different. for a start, many of the red guard revolutionaries who had got into the building that night had slipped in through a back door which had not in lock. there was no dramatic storming of this palace. as for claims of a mass uprising of workers, peasants and shoulder —— soldiers, today that might be referred to as fake news. this was a coup, one party, the bolsheviks, had seized power in ru

as a sign of weakness which russia cannot afford itself so this is why i mean publicly russia won't ask for that but. as for the effect of those sanctions the most important one the most significant ones are about. restrictions for access to western funds western money and of course it's high technology so which huge the fact russia's oil industry so projects or of all drilling in arctic where new technologies are needed so that's actually hurts ok but again i would think that no put in or you know russian leadership will ever ask for lifting the so tense and lisa let's bring the conversation about a new i rushes into ferentz alleged interference how you want to put it in the election and how we assured when u.s. intelligence agencies be when trump says he believes them because they of course the cia reports of january has concluded that there was russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen elections. i think the question for the u.s. . people who are always focused on developing intelligence and and pursuing investigative mandates is is really all about what are we in the midd

and the media analyst lionel gave us his take on the allegations against russia. he should have said that cling on and may have done it no he says russian box so let me get this straight they're going to get back at you by repeating something which apparently may or may not be true they're not making this up they're not lying they're not crafting some story of you having been and all they're doing is repeating all according to you allegations made by someone else who benefits from this this absolutely specious idea that somebody is going to go through all of this work to make some stranger and some cryptic association with some has been star trek actor or an accusation there's forty years old i mean it doesn't make any sense but it's great commentary well rumors of russian meddling have been circulating in the us for more than a year now but the treasury secretary says perhaps it is time to move on let me be clear nobody thinks this has had any impact on the election so whatever occurred there was no impacts i think the american public is ready to move on to more

russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not all the british p.m.'s message comes on the back of a tough week for her domestically treason may continues to be hounded by m.p.'s over her braids and negotiations which are seemingly yet to yield any real positives for the u.k. so much so that the e.u. is chief breaks in the go shitters sees he won't rule out a new deal scenario meaning breaks it talks could collapse entirely the pressure is also building on may with rumors that forty m.p.'s are reading a letter of no confidence now that number is just a short of the required total to force a new leadership election within her conservative party we discuss the p.m.'s predicament with party veteran and former government minister peter lilley he believes her speech wasn't just directed at moscow. as much a message to europe because it was to russia it was saying we are the major security power in the european continent we have the best armed forces and the greatest ability to deploy them we want to continue to be allied with our european neighbors when we

meanwhile the roof's was watching it's big brother russia with keen interest the country is in russia's buffer zone with the west and it was in the throes of an economic crisis the first attempts at reform had left few winners. a group a small group of people who had benefited from the reforms began to dominate political life he all the dark system triggered political of disillusionment and disappointment among the population in a market economy and in democracy. by any carbon year which was a well known political commentator and one of the few journalists in the country who were critical of the government. but if you look it led to a great desire for a strong hand a strong power a desire for dictatorship. and president alexander look at shankar always a classic example of this. is just how much you. want to thank aleksander lucas shankar was a product of the old system a loyal party comrade an army officer and the director of a co-operative he wanted independence but new brother was couldn't go it alone. but we've rejected privatization and held on to state property and it's wanted to

these are isolated because all the negotiating partners russia china u.k. france and germany both support the contribution of the agreement. now syria looks like it's going to top the agenda here both countries are supporting bashar al assad in the region and fresh elections what exactly does iran want to see come out of this syria is a contentious issues you know iran and russia have been propping up the charlotte assad's regime in syria some say that it wasn't for iran's a partial support of the columbine so it's the role that's being heley criticize in the west. especially for not supporting somebody like the sap but nevertheless assad has the upper hand in syria now of islamic state at the same time have been ousted from some of the citizen was occupying iraq or health fallen recently by example and the next game is important for iran and russia what happens i was isis the islamic state you know is pushed out of syria and iraq what is the next stage in syria is. going to continue to dominate the country is it going to stand for this bill is position or

russia saga seen as essential . and embraced. in person and saatchi just a day ago and the russian military intelligence community has been working with the asset family and it's kind of a circle of military intelligence people sense long time ago for forty years there's a lot of very much interaction personal interaction many of those people and those generals are known to russians stressed trained in russian military academies so keeping the acid and also keeping the asset family hierarchy of military and intelligence and security people that's seen as the only guarantee that russia could get that syria is going to be reliable russian base in its kind of grand stand off with the united states and the mediterranean and the middle eastern region so russia is not giving up assad the main problem of the russian effort in syria actually is that we don't have sufficient resources especially resources to rebuild syria konami and financial and without rebuilding there will be no peace there at all and they've called on th

to went to russia that's the dream that they all go to russia that's hash tag fake news but it was fake news because appointments d. is going to represent will go six people's republic at the negotiations can means from now on. i think what happened is indeed not very good but the reason for it i'm sorry but these are the actions over the west because they did not ask and ask to have elections they have been denying these places the right to have elections since two thousand and fourteen their idea. is that it would have security which means. having ukrainian or u.s. troops on the border the runner which means total brigade because since january ukraine is not supplying even electricity and water they can't for three years see what the saudis have done to you and then you present legally you want to do this here thing these republics get their food and water and electricity from russia not because russia wants to you know to feed them but because he of course got all the supplies you know and if they had elections they would have had a more legitimate government with which such things w

just russia's actions which threaten the international. the british prime minister calls on europe to unite against the so-called russian threat in a speech. to draw fire from the struggling. after pressure from the u.s. justice department forced to register as a foreign agent we take a look at what changes. from words to war the. conflicts intensify between iran and saudi arabia. where we are joining us from our welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my names you know welcome to the program our top story the british prime minister is calling to unite against russia pose a threat to europe accuse moscow of military aggression election meddling and spreading fake news without going into any detail. does russia's actions which threaten the international order on which we all depend so i have a very simple message for russia we know what you are doing and you will not succeed while the mansion house speech is an annual event where the prime minister traditionally delivers a foreign policy speech and it was the lord mare of the city of lo

the gap between rich and poor in russia widened dramatically. moscow was still doing relatively well but elsewhere people were struggling. the good old days were looking better than ever. with the city d.s.s. it enables them there was still a lot of nostalgia that for the soviet distribution economy was state supported government contracts subsidies and rising social expenditure. said sir nicholas holbert. but even in moscow people were wistfully looking back to soviet times. business down to appeared in many forms for example in the restaurant of the famous department store. which. are canteen is designed according to the traditional soviet model the cashiers wear bonnets and there are tables plants and flowers on the tables. what this is the famous vending machine that stood on the streets in soviet times you could buy normal water for one kopek or water with syrup for three. the generation that knew the old soviet union still exists that's why this place is so popular the atmosphere here is familiar to everyone many young people also like to

and investigation into a deadly chemical incident in syria stalls as russia offers its response to washington post. investigation doesn't stand up to any criticism and it's not known from who this unreliable evidence came from it falls apart like a house of cards. the remarkable story of survival of a three year old girl rescued from a plane crash that killed six people in eastern russia. live worldwide this is r.t. international the. eleven am friday morning here in moscow first off the twitter police are getting heavy put out longer just checks to see if you're a real person it's also judge and jury to it's all part of new guidelines being laid down by the social network has been taking a closer look. up until this week verification illustrated by a blue tick on twitter was a symbol that a user's account is genuine so if you take the account air don't old trump the blue tick care to notice that yes these really are the words of the u.s. president it's a bit like a certificate of authenticity for a design a handbag or a hologram stick on the back of a box containing a computer game and high

. >> and two main topics, north korea and russia. with north korea, he was already involved with a verbal war with the north korean leader kim jong-un. let me read it out. why would kim jong-un insult me by calling him old when i would never call him short and fat. i try hard to be his friend and maybe someday that will happen. we see the u.s. president and the vietnamese president walking down the steps there. we're going to be bringing you live those question and answers by the two leaders. now, the u.s. president has praised his relationship with the vietnamese leader and said how much progress they've made over the last few years and that was apparent to see. it's going to be interesting what questions, of course, the u.s. president in particular is asked. let's listen in. >> ladies and gentlemen, members of the media, the presidents are now announcing a press briefing on their talks. >> translator: we both shared the views that the bilateral relations has scored substantial results over the years delivering enormous benefits to

and russia. you know all the states on the security council as well why do you think they failed to agree on an issue which really should have brought them together. well i think the point is that the the reporter we just heard made the point that russia is saying that the investigation has so far been very one sided and i think that's correct i mean we have a report from one of america's premier journalist robert scheer who made it clear that the that the. kind that i think is pronounced attack in april was probably not even sarah and it was more likely chlorine gas in a house that was blown up by a bomb and not. as it was presented a syrian attack by syria which had been shown to have given up all of its poison gas so there's real questions about that investigation and i think that. you know russia vetoed it because the country was seeing the same thing likely to continue the united states is vetoing an alternative approach that would perhaps be more balanced and look at multiple possibilities

meanwhile the roof's was watching its big brother russia with keen interest the country is in russia's buffer zone with the west and it was in the throes of an economic crisis the first attempts at reform had left a few winners. a group a small group of people who had benefited from the reforms began to dominate political life. de oligarch system triggered political of disillusionment and disappointment among the population and the market economy and in democracy. by any combat you bitch was a well known political commentator and one of the few journalists in the country who were critical of the government. but if you look it led to a great desire for a strong hand a strong power a desire for dictatorship. president alexander look at shank always a classic example of this. where yeah. yeah yeah. yeah that's how i think that someone from. alexander lucas franco was a product of the old system a loyal party comrade an army officer and the director of a co-operative he wanted independence but new brother was couldn't go it alone. but we rejected privatization and held on to state property

hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle one hundred years ago russia was consumed by revolution and unprecedented violence it is not an understatement to say the russian revolution or bolster big coup d'etat was the defining moment of the twentieth century how did it change russia and the world. crosstalk in the russian revolution i'm joined by my guest here in moscow geoffrey robertson is a professor of history at university college cork and a member of the royal irish academy we also have marc sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst and of course we have bob and she's a political analyst with sputnik international all right gentlemen as always crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it. geoffrey robertson we go to you first here one hundred years on i will the most obvious question was it worth it was it worth it yes i think it was one because what the revolution showed was that it was possible to. get nine hundred seventy eight was that the people into the history fundamentally