what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit or i was so strong. but i. feel. it's like. the national. game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't get the rights that. i think it's unfair. that just well this is on the fifth. not the winter olympics but no rush to move out of the country that's so few for the good stuff. and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics that will happen without t.v. russia will continue discussing the future of russian olympics after a short break you're watching international. war zone you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles. that you saw for the tell you that will be gossip and probably. off the bat as you tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks we along the border will watch. the concentration the bureaucratic concentration is sapping the economic vitality from this entrepreneuria

about their views on me putin says he welcomes the world coming to russia they're going to see russia for themselves what are they going to take away from them with them in a sentence. i hope they take away something good and. that they see the friendlier more open part of russia and all the. young people in it and you know one sentence russia just so much more than just. ok we'll leave it that russia was so much more than just fortune thank you very much for joining us on quadriga this time we look forward to seeing you again next time around five by interest. we. thank. you chua. imagine the trial. and you can leave your home country. in macedonia it's not all the kids hate me. since kids would go ninety minutes. to children to face our two part documentary almost well a new line in germany fifteen minutes long d.w. . this is a good news come to life somebody and let's go right to our correspondent live in central istanbul i'm joined by the show a couple of interviews political correspondent on those stories in just a minute but first this news just in it's all about the perspective

we have a feeling that russia is treated as someone. else as someone inferior as a as an inferior country but this is not the case at least from the point of view. and that's why. that's where this military buildup comes from ok so military buildup macharia can russia really realistically speaking it doesn't have the sort of budget does it that the americans have at their disposal its military technology isn't on the same level as the u.s. . can't really challenge the u.s. position globally which underwrites much of the international order that we know whether it's economics or international shipping and so on and so forth which many nations count on. it's really a matter of perception because the military buildup is meant to increase the level of dignity that a country feels it has to avoid being bullied by us and therefore feel as if it is safe because with ability to appear to we week that weakness invades bulling and which also is going to diversity into the national economy and that will fill the of the people so there is that desi

president had pressured him over the russia investigation. it led to a special counsel taking the reins, former fbi director robert mueller. in march 2017, after two months of hiding, christopher steele eventually reemerged. >> i'm really pleased to be back here working again at the offices in london today. >> but he left it to others to solve the puzzle his dossier created. >> just to add i won't be making any further statements or comments at this time. thank you so much. >> true to his word, steel stayed out of the public eye but has reportedly been interviewed by the investigators working for special counsel robert mueller and in a november 2017 book by luke harding, a reporter for the guardian newspaper, harding says steele has told friend tas -- friends that he believes that his dossier is 70 to 90% accurate and that it will be vindicated by mueller's investigation. steele said quote, i have been dealing with this country for 30 years. why would i invent stuff? more than a year after the presidential election, steele's memos are an obje

awaits russia's winter olympians. the former georgia president crane opposition politician mikhail saakashvili has caused chaos today in the craning capital kiev in the span of a few hours he managed to climb on to the roof of an apartment block threatening to jump after police searched his home he was then removed and arrested by security services before being freed from custody by a crowd of his supporters. her and his what happened barely an hour earlier when he lived by the sea with a few days ago his political movement held a major rally in kiev demanding the impeachment of ukraine's president poroshenko r.t. correspondent dina course has been following events. the georgian politician made quite a scene this tuesday morning in the center of the ukrainian capital. activities before that happened the politician confined himself to the roof of the building reported these threats ning to jump off a roof in protest low in force minta officials broke the door of his apartment and searched the flat for avid ends of cour

this is the problem with russia. they have huge ambitions on the and theional level ability is not always fit with these ambitions, so they use doping, which is a shameful thing to do. so they are banned from the olympics in south korea. daria: i remember reading the forecasts right before the olympics. vladimir: it was a nice surprise for the russian people andnd for the russian government. we continue the conversation, let's take a closer look at what the allegations of state-backed doping amount to. 2014 winter olympicics in sochi. , the host nation, won 33 medals, more than any other country. russia and president vladimir putin, the came off looking like champions, but did they play fair, or were the real champions the doping labs? two years after the games, an investigator with the world doping agency published some serious allegations. >> the mesko -- the moscow laboratory operated within a state-directed failsafe system. the russian ministry of sport directed, controlled, and oversaw the manipulation of athlet

did it thing against team russia. no i don't think we should look at this announcement from our perspective i think the decision of letting the appearance in to stand in next year's presidential election it's all no surprise whatsoever us no surprise to myself to read mr putin seventeen year leadership with russia he has been exceedingly successful indeed he saved russia from the catastrophic cleat disastrous. tenure of boris yeltsin and indeed the russian people are very very grateful to president putin for what he has done for their country the russian federation had it not been for mr putin's policies for his very strong leadership could have disintegrated as did the suit be. and although as we mentioned the approval ratings have been high doesn't necessarily mean it's a done deal and no doubt there will be cynicism from abroad which rather treats russian voters with a degree of contempt there what international reaction do you expect. well quite frankly this is an internal matter for the russian federation the rus

well let's just remind you then about that decision on team russia the international olympic committee this evening said that russian athletes can only compete under a neutral flag at the upcoming winter games they will participate under the name olympic athlete from russia with the country's flag and symbols banned from the games the russian olympic committee has been suspended with immediate effect. the olympic games came to the decision after hearing finding is more than a year long independent investigation into alleged state sponsored doping in russia the probe headed by the former swiss president samuel schmidt and evidence of the systematic systemic manipulation of the anti doping rules and system well russian figure skating coach tatiana tarasova has reacted to the decision saying it is the worst possible. look as they say there are no words you know i don't want to cry i want to scream the fact they're astley's have been allowed to compete as neutrals but have to call themselves olympic athletes from russia i think this is the worst outcome. before today's decision twenty five

what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit boring i says to the strongest country. by. people everybody is like a. beautiful national soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't get into the right as i think it's unfair for you to have any doubts as well this is on the people not the winter olympics but you know russia we've got a whole country that's so you live the good stuff. and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics that will. without team russia or back to our continuing coverage of the international olympic committee decision to ban russia's team and many individual russian athletes from taking part in the two thousand and eighteen winter games in south korea many athletes were handed a lifetime bans but most disputed the evidence that was presented against them they insisted that they have done nothing wrong and accused of violating their presumption of innocence partridge looks a

he also commented on the unprecedented plan of team russia in the winter olympics. research without doubt we will not announce any blockade or prevent our athletes from competing if we want in a personal capacity to. see banned russia from the twenty eighteen winter games our three year police scandal that's despite a lack of concrete evidence to support the claims of the state sponsored drug program and after years of terror are still no longer holds any terror in syria the russian military says the group has been defeated there. hello there live from moscow you're watching r.t. international. clock here now for start without breaking news because vladimir putin has officially announced his bid for twenty for the twenty eighteen presidential election in russia with more on this we can cross large nicky out and he's been following events nikki good evening what else has mr putin said then on this. well andy it was widely expected of course that vladimir putin would throw his hat in the ring for the twenty eighteen elections but he's played coy on the issue for so lo

i am not involved in russia. president of the united states. >> it started in the spring of 2016 with a former british spy who's name was almost too james bond to be true. steele, christopher steele. >> and we will make america great again. thank you, everybody. >> if you were looking to investigate donald trump's alleged russia connections, christopher steele would seem like the perfect fit. >> he can tell you off the top of his head the leading members of the russian mafia, people who have influence in the kremlin and so on. >> nigel west knows christopher steele. he's a writer and historian whose sperkt is british intelligence. west says that steele was mi-6's man in moscow in the early nine fiend 90s. >> and thereafter he ended his career as the head of the branch that trains new entry intelligence officers. and that's actually considered to be a pretty important role. >> after retiring, steele started a new company called or business business intelligence located in this building in london. it specialized in

needs russia more than russia in this moment if they need russia which is going to jump in there. and you know if they need russia there why strip them of their identity theft. they have to be seen to acknowledge and that's to biggest problem because i said two years ago when i was sitting here and i said that last summer that's. an order to be seen to do something they need to be born in. the fact that they are now making this big big show means that not only has the fight against doping for fairness in sport has been set back even ford bridges had for years now is tenuous at least because you know all the folks from of russia are nothing of the clean up so they need russia to be in this role to be the kind of the penitent and to me and say look we're sorry we're sorry and let's get on with it so the you know it's useful for them they're useful it's useful to be able to beat russia with this stick yeah and let's be fair i mean they haven't let rush off the hook here he came out and said this is none precedented attack on the integrity of the limpid games i mean no mincing the wor

russia is a profitable strategy for the i.o.c. it's sport and a simple simply is there is no fair play in sport i mean at this level the simple truth is that in order to compete at the highest level you have to do something to stay there and when you have a very well paying job at the level of mr packer and mr reedy and travers target and so on they need to do to kind of stay on top of just living and you know she is very useful to keep it's very very unfair in russia under doing this there is of course a political drive behind us to want to take a question that i have my mind is ok so russia's bond and so on is it was completely beyond what next who else will go after like my my money would go on nobody because they want to keep beating or beating the drums say bush is bad russia is bad because it is the only bad one and all do the right these are clean and then this my athletes from are and are clean your athletes new character. so we can sleep well at night thinking oh we're ok the russians are the bad guys in the case you know

all these very interesting lisa i mean where it's from russia has always be seen information. been there on the wall the problem is europe united states mayn't i know but you know it's very interesting because they know everything about everybody but they know the book inside of their problem which they have about crime and i'll about governments about should know how to present them change the constitution to be the president of thought time and thought of people yes but this is a problem of russia and god judge them set them above you bring up costs i think the leadership leadership is in love the responsibility what a person willing to take on in ukraine there is a sense the issue when a politiques political leaders did create did it decree a dem self-sown there is a leadership will buckle in this election ordinal of people are ready to support anyone. who i book up to for change this is a real problem because we need to change but without support from russia and was ok advice is from the police checks from russia because they try to help everyone to change to see to be sur

to become more allies than enemies are you sad that you want to create an alternative to this russia phobia what is it going to be like i mean how do you make this alternative appealing to the political elites. well you know first also among allies you have to be able to criticize each other those as friends when it's needed and of course when it comes for instance at the operation with the whole process of this terrible terrorist they get back because my dutch fellow countrymen when it comes to shutting down of the plane i made seventeen out of things there was a lot of criticism all i'm asking for cooperation also does russia but we also have so much in common with russia on other aspects we have the same kind of culture we are christians a little big band of russian is russian off the books kristie and we have the same problems often when it comes to the future of immigration we both had bad experience when it comes to terrorism also in russia rather with some mosco or what happened in chechnya and the boss we had in a similar way the same kind of experience so what i believe is t

russia. the yeah. yeah ok there we are he was asked directly twice on a public stage in as many hours where they were going to stand or not and now we know that he may put in as officially put his hat in the ring to stand for the presidential election next march that announcement at a meeting of workers in western russia who are celebrating eighty five years of operation as i mentioned earlier on wednesday he was asked at a packed volunteer forum in a moscow arena about his intention to run in twenty eighteen without time he didn't give a direct answer he said the decision would be announced soon but everybody took that as being the clearest signal to date russia's ruling party has already said that it will support. candidacy in terms of timing the first round of the presidential election in russia will be held on the eighteenth of march next year that incidentally is the anniversary of crimea voting to rejoin russia we'll have continuing reaction and analysis of that in the coming hours here on r.t. .

, -- than russia, a place that had been annexed by russia about 100 years before. a place that was very different in russia in climate. it is subtropical. it has orange groves, vineyards, towering mountains. but it is a very distant place. a place with a very complicated ethnic makeup. very far from the capital. and it seems like it may be obscured, but it is places like this that the, incubators of radicalism across the ideological spectrum at this time. radicals who we are going to talk about again asked students. they begin as students who are traveling to russian cities to receive their education, returning home with plans to transform their native country, renew georgian culture. you have the growth of nationalism in the empire's outskirts as people are educated by imperial institutions. as they return home, more self-conscious, thinking more about how to bring modern indie -- modernity to their countries. you have local elites fluent in georgian, which is not at all related to russian, and also learning russian. you have the growth of educational opportunitie

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bad russia's bad because if russia is the only bad one in order at least are clean and then there's my athletes from our inner clean your artists nuclear it was so we can sleep well at night thinking all we're ok the russians are the bad guys in the case we're north of the case that there's a lot of bad guys over were. you know it's just it won't change i never would if they want to as you. well remind of our top story tonight donald trump has recognized you recently as the capital of israel that announcement made in the last few minutes we've got plenty of reaction to come.

i think russia has designs for a greater russia, and they are trying to have their way of governance prevail over ours. >> your general reaction to the speech, though. there must have been stuff in it that you actually like. the decertifying of the iran deal. getting tough, talking tough, at least, on isis. talking about a booming stock market, low unemployment? >> i must tell you, some of the statements issued as part of his national security strategy where he does talk about russia's behavior, at least the strategy talks that way, but quite frankly when a president talks about america first and talks about us leading but not working with the rest of the international community when we pull out of the paris climate talks when we act unilaterally on the decertification on iran, that's not what a leader does. that's not what the united states should be doing. >> turning now to the mueller probe. are you worried about the integrity of that investigation? >> quite frankly, i think everyone should be worried and making sure mr. mueller has all the authority and all of the resources he ne

needs russia more than. this moment so recap them russia has been banned from the twenty eighteen winter games however clean individual athletes have been allowed to compete under a neutral flag the i.o.c. says the doping test samples were manipulated during the sochi olympics in twenty fourteen it also accused russia of an unprecedented attack on the integrity of the limpid games and sport next year russian athletes will participate under the name elim pick athlete from russia the country's anthem and symbols they will be banned from the games committee is also required to repay the cost of the investigations the total sum of fifteen million u.s. dollars however the i.o.c. suggests the russian flag could still make a symbolic appearance in the closing ceremony if russia complies with all the requirements. these invited elsley so will participate between individual or team competitions under the name olympic elf lead from russia with the acronym. they will compete with a uniform bearing this name and under t

and smooth transition to democracy in russia do you think that barring someone like alexei. vonnie in this election is definitely going to undermine the chances of having three elections in russia i think certainly yes that i agree was not sure what the previous speaker just said. i don't know valley would have gotten some pretty sharp hits on the level of corruption. and he's also true that he has quite a wide following throughout the country on the other hand there's a widespread apathy about this election and i think putin's problem is presenting himself as a reinvigorated figure as a person with a new program and i think he's going to find it very very difficult indeed without the us it's also important to remember that this is at least according to the constitution putin's last possible term. by the time he reaches the end of the in twenty twenty four year be i think it's seventy two. he would have to wait for another six years for another president talking plans before he could have another case i think it's just not practical this is full of if your movement open russ

elections russia hacked the cattle and elections russia hacked the boat as well all of russia is hooked on doping because everything in russia is. all right down this and stick around in the studio will continue to talk about this breaking news here on r.t. international thanks for joining us i'll be with you in just a moment. so just to remind you here on the channel the russian paralympic committee was first suspended this ahead of last year's summer games in rio. it was unanimous in its verdict. the i.p.c. governing board has resolved to suspend the reform paralympic committee with the media. this means that the russian paralympic committee loses all right some privileges of i.p.c. membership back then russian athletes were left devastated at the news they wouldn't be able to compete in rio. this decision is a totally unfair it is such a blow to all of us paralympian we've devoted so much energy health everything to get ready for these games for some of us these games would have been the first for others to last now all around fleets are in shock they feel to blanket ban the entire l

shell resenting those who are doing the real business in russia in the expending this business what is interesting it's for example there is a reading doing business in the world four years ago russia was the seed place of one hundred twenty now it's on the thirty five you see you see the difference the britain i think if the memory serves me is the seven so basically we have no grocery where claim yeah of course you mention the big multinationals which each of them have gone to russia backgrounds arguably what about as enemies possibly thinking of competing in in the russian trade market or trying to work deals. you know he right. i think there was any i think i think the right people i mean those who are members of the r b c c this is russian british of commerce they know the realities and of course they're coming especially in the area of the high tech they know the benefits but of course the need i mean the business the british business news the political signals from the government in order not to distort the picture but to give the clear picture the right picture or what's happen

civil society in russia in bringing more people into governing russia don't you think that he himself is trying to dilute that collective identity that you've been talking about the toll i think that is very liberal i agree with that and when a democratic. being crushed a leader. of the expectations of russia of russians of the majority of the russians and the majority. if russia. doesn't want a liberal democratic leader we first before. wants to have a strong powerful and but totally that cool to restore the. glory of our country independence and freedom for our society for our. state and that is the first of the month after that the second amendment is not civil society is just social justice i think the death watch in a cool place fulfills very well these bought into joe politics and the distorting celebrity and that is why he is so all popular and why we support and keep but keep . it. keep hasn't done anything to it in order to restore social justice anything keep it in some social aspect he he's. a liberal by saying i am also you are right here because we have to take a very sho

bad russia's bad because if russia is the only bad one in order at least are clean and then as my athletes from are and are clean you're at this new character it was so we can sleep well at night thinking oh we're ok the russians are the bad guys in the case you know a lot of the cases that there's a lot of bad guys everywhere. you know it's just it won't change and now with this it will change even for the. now just to remind you the international olympic committee says russian athletes can only compete under a neutral flag they will participate under the title olympic athlete from russia with the country's flag and symbols banned from the games next tuesday russian sports officials are expected to hold a meeting on how to react to that decision but earlier president putin said that the neutrals option would be humiliating for the country. there are two options either forcing russia to compete under a neutral flag or not letting it go to the olympics a tool either is a humiliation for the country. or joined me earlier in the studio for an in-depth discussion of the i.o.c. . it is going to

speculation regarding the meddling of russia. maybe it is not russia. maybe it is another country. i see a lot of cameras and that is why don't want to name other countries. we have some speculation. is it just only because of the problem between democrats and republicans? i do not want it to interfere in internal relations. i would just like to answer your question. my proposal to you, you meaning restoreed states, to sensitive links of communications between counterintelligence and security the usworking together will repeatedly say we are not enemies. we are partners. we were alive in the second world war and we are fighting. it is high time for us to have constructive discussions about open and transparent discussions about security challenges that we face. if we have concerns, we openly discuss them. matthew mass media. throughry easy to speak mass media. i do not want to betray my friend who has given me this information, but i would like to save habits -- privately, the united states -- i don't want to continue the sentient -- the sentence. now the mass media will take this

imposed sanctions on russia and in particular he brought up red lines regarding the energy russia's energy sector and that energy of course that gets provided here to germany i can tell you from a domestic point of view in a saudi who pays german energy bills they are rocketing up at the moment cross the country so a particularly big issue here for germany he said that. claims of by washington wanting to perhaps cut off russian gas to german markets was one of these red lines he wouldn't accept that at all especially when it did seem that the u.s. were also trying to put forward their own alternatives to taking russian gas it turns as that cold and increased price but when you look at the language used by that my gabrielle talked about the relationship between the u.s. and the other side of the atlantic being weakened that it was beginning to crumble these type of words would have been unthinkable pre trump when they were talking about that transatlantic relationship but it does seem that the words coming from the foreign minister reflect well the public view here in germany of a new poll

what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit more i says to the strongest country. by. people everybody is like a. beautiful national soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't get the rights to. be found. just well this is on the people not the winter olympics but you know russia is not a whole country that's your political stuff. and the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first ever winter olympics. happened without t.v. russia just a reminder you are watching our continuing coverage of the international olympic committee's decision to ban russia's team and many individual russian athletes from taking part in the two thousand and eighteen winter games in south korea many athletes were handed a lifetime bans but most to dispute the evidence that was presented against them they insist they've done nothing wrong and accuse officials of violating their presumption of innocence or his kid partridge's looks at how russi

people that have to report to the kremlin how do you see this summit persuading people to do trade with russia and have a room here says that perspective well until the first saw everything what is said is just the exact reflection of the fake news about the russian the british media. i always telling my friends in britain that you know of course you understand what the press is writing but they have to listen to the companies like b.p. shell us resenting those who are doing the real business in russia in the expanding this business what is interesting is for example there is a reading doing business in the world four years ago russia was the seed place of one hundred twenty now it's on the thirty five you see you see the difference the britain i think if the memory serves me is the seven so basically where they have your grocery where playing yeah of course essentially big multinationals which each of them have gone to russia all backgrounds arguably what about as enemies possibly thinking of competing in in the russian trade market or trying to work deals you know oh he writes ok here i thin

, he does not want to confront russia, that he wants to support and back russia. that can't be explained insecurity. there appears to be something much more serious -- much more concerning about the way the president feels indebted to russia and i think that has to do with the fact that he knew they were assisting him during his presidential campaign and he has a very long history of business relationships and other ways of -- other matters of indebtedness to russians and the russian federation. >> susan, listening to you tonight, i wanted to come back at this. so our viewers really do get the point, did you, susan, think in your lifetime you would hear a russian president compliment the performance the united states stock market? >> well, you know, not in the current atmosphere. i have to say, remember, i was there in russia when george w. bush and vladimir putin met each other for the first time. and that was in a different era before 9/11 and there was mutual admiration going on. remember, george w. bush looked into vladimir putin's soul, condoleezza rice groan

about their views on me putin says he welcomes the world coming to russia they're going to see russia for themselves what are they going to take away from them with them in a sentence. i hope they take away something good and. that they see a friendlier more open part of russia and the. young people in it and you know one sentence russia you so much more than just. ok believe that russia was so much more than just fortune thank you very much for joining us on for doing it this time we look forward to seeing you again next time around five by interest. and the same. presenting a dash oh in hamburg the hometown of design a colloguing found. knuckle touching homecoming here in this blended album philharmonic it's chilly northern german city and really melts johan's your romance thirty minutes on. this is you get me it's come to life on but end of the right to our correspondent he is in central istanbul i'm joined by the helicopter did of his political correspondent on those stories in just a minute but first this news just in it's all about the perspective closer d.w. news for us and. it

it's all russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia russia in the meantime i think russia is like five or six thousand miles thousand miles from here well if you count the countries like thousands and thousands of miles across russia but right here in this country i saw this image it's a video. of these corks at a gas station shop you know we've just driven across the country and there are many of these gas stations little convenience stores on the gas station and here are these two women nodding off while the customer is trying to pay for her goods and it just me me feel so sad for. the fact that this is happening here in this country and nobody is talking about it or putting into context what is going wrong how what what is wrong well it's called the get off the cation of america and if you listen to gil scott heron one of the seminal street poets spoken word geniuses of our era. you know you would know that this was coming. basically america doesn't want to deal with the fact that.

it'll be a great tournament in russia as well and the world will get to learn more about russia away from putin away from politics excuse me it's exactly the point they're both companies are in germany three if you're known few years ago six it was not about miracle and what company russia two thousand and eighteen is not on the ball but sometimes i have an expression and i knew i didn't say the germans are hypocrites i'm saying that the german public opinion is a kind of obsessed by put him in even if you talk soccer if you even if you talk talks for it's in soccer all the baby coming back the fortune. he speaks german he was a k.g.b. agent here there's the obvious first yeah and then drop it. down to what he said i'm thinking of the russians much more than on the one person russia is so much more than on the pushing yeah i would really like to support that i mean as a russian journalist and reporting about russia for the english language so you agree with a lot of me yeah that's right you know it's just putin definitely yeah yeah i'm going to say i mean you really want you know som

let's just remind you that a bad decision on team russia the in. the national olympic committee this evening said that russian athletes can only compete under a neutral flag at the upcoming winter games they will participate under the name olympic athlete from russia with the country's flag and symbols banned from the games the russian olympic committee has been suspended with immediate effect. the olympic games came to the decision after hearing finally there's more than a year long independent investigation into alleged state sponsored doping in russia the probe headed by the former swiss president samuel schmidt.

so they went looking for someone who knew russia, someone who had sources in russia. someone like christopher steele. >> at some point in the summer of 2016, i heard from mr. steel that he had this project relating to russia which implicated contacts between russians and people associated with president trump's campaign. >> steele had barely begun his investigation overtrump's russia ties when a big russia story broke in the united states. it was june 14th, 2016 and the washington pose reported the democratic national committee had been hacked. security analysts suspected that russia was behind it. >> this was a clear espionage attempt by the russian government to steal information about the u.s. political process. >> malcolm nance is a former naval intelligence officer and an msnbc contributor who wrote the plot to hack america about russia's meddling in the 2016 election. >> putin views russia as missing its place as the number one super power in the world, even though it's economically on par with italy. to do it, you can use soft power, hybrid warfare, which is po

dismay among team russia as athletes watched the announcement being delivered at the i.o.c. had courted in switzerland. and i welcome you watching our international with me andrew farmer and it era to the now breaking news this hour russia has been banned from twenty to twenty eighteen winter games however individual athletes have been allowed to compete under a neutral flag bell persisted pate under the name a limb picked athlete from russia with the country's anthem and symbols banned from the games these in why did elsley so will participate be it in individual or team competitions under the name olympic else lead from russia with the all. they will compete with a uniform bearing. and under the olympic fluke. the olympic swim will be played only. for the russian figure skating coach tatiana task has reacted to the decision saying it is the worst possible. stukas they say there are no words you know i don't want to cry i want to scream the fact they're asked leitz have been allowed to compete as neutrals but have to call themselves olympic athletes from russia i think this

but it was steele's broader assertions about russia's aims, russia's methods and russia's relationship with trump that would end up slow burning through the whole first year of the trump presidency. i saw the change in rich when we moved into the new house. but having his parents over was enlightening. ♪ you don't like my lasagna? no, it's good. -hmm. -oh. huh. [ both laugh ] here, blow. blow on it. you see it, right? is there a draft in here? i'm telling you, it's so easy to get home insurance on progressive.com. progressive can't save you from becoming your parents. but we can save you money when you bundle home and auto. ♪ ♪ >>> for 20 years, christopher steele had kept his head down and held his secrets close to the vest, but the things he was hearing from his deep cover sources inside russia during the summer of 2016 changed all that. according to jonathan weiner, steele felt that if the russians intended to meddle in the upcoming american election, the fbi should know about it. >> that's the kind of thing the fbi needed to know and to assess professionally. impartially. in

i am a person who has researched russia a bit i know a bit about it i've been to russia many times actually since one thousand i came here for the first time to interview dissidents i was working on a movie in one nine hundred eighty two called the defiance and it was about the dissidents who were coming out of the psychiatric clinics but i try to stick to what i feel is the truth and i don't take i didn't say one false were true mr p. at all i didn't say what i meant when i said it when i said to him one of the i think one of the first things i said was it strikes me that you're the you're a son of russia as you know i pushed whatever people say i pushed him and certainly i could feel his irritation when i was pushing him hard on the democracy question on this the question of his succession and what's going to happen next year. major oil producers around the world have extended their deal to cut production in an effort to rebalance the markets they will reduce their output until the end of next year well the decision follows talks between russia and opec members in vienna on the time suppl

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the russia time line. i would argue you need to see,ly show what you flynn and trump were saying publicly versus what's been revealed today behind the scenes. i'm ari melbourne, you are watching a special edition of "the beat" on msnbc. when you have a cold stuff happens. shut down cold symptoms fast with maximum strength alka seltzer plus liquid gels. hey! yeah!? i switched to geico and got more! more savings on car insurance!? they helped with homeowners, too! ok! plus motorcycle, boat and rv insurance! geico's got you covered! like a blanket! houston? you seeing this? geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. . >> lock her up. lock her upch. and you know why we're saying that? we're saying that because if i. a guy who knows this business if i did a tenth of what she did, i would be in jail today. >> welling, today, mike flynn, he's not in jail but he did go in and look at a serious criminal exposure in court. he pled guilty to a felony and signed a document that suggests there are more. that's w

putin said russia will keep that have bases well. now for some of the other stories making the news around the world at the moment syrian rebel groups have rejected russian sponsored peace talks planned for january saying moscow is trying to bypass the united nations sponsored peace process the rebels have all too accused russia of committing war crimes in syria and failing to put pressure on the syrian government. liberians are voting today in a runoff poll to choose a new president former international george way it is facing vice president. with an a list expecting a tight outcome when it will succeed president ellen johnson sirleaf who is stepping down after twelve years as africa's first elected female leader. now it's been a second day of unrest in peru over the release from jail of ex leader about a fool who modi the former president who is now in hospital was granted a medical pardon of to serving less than half of the twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights abuses as controversial release comes by order of