of -- it has created a vacuum in russia -- and russia felt it was the right time to interfere. process isportant happening. there are two processes that russia's way. oil prices limited in 2015. it happened when the u.s. applied actions to russia. hinting thaty were the u.s. was behind the price plummeting directly by intelligence officers. they understood that if they do not make a deal with the gulf states or major exporters, the prices will go up -- will go further down. to the soviet in the 1980's will happen to the current regime as well. that kind of paranoia drew them closer. the way they made their way into the gulf was the power vacuum created by the strategy of the u.s. it was facilitated their, their interest in the market. one of the biggest success that they have achieved was the oil prices through this russia opec deal. it seemed incredible. nobody expected that to happen. first of all, the members of inc -- some members are constant confrontation. them to getted along and come up with a solution or a deal. russia managed to play between these two powers and comme

which is called i hate religion i hate russia russia is the enemy and we almost. genuflect at the altar of this new religious icon and that's the way you can take the american people's money heart yearned tax dollars which could be used for housing and health care and the education the things human beings need and shovel it over to the defense contractors you have to explain to them that it's an absolute national imperative to do that in order to carry out this looting of the national budget and that's what we're witnessing right and he let me go to let me go to earl before we go to the break you manufactured consent this is what be in its most recent incarnation it's manufactured consent and and and i want to talk about the intelligence committee in the second half of the program but the liberal media loves it and they they perpetrate it go ahead girl thirty seconds. if it is manufactured consent tenet and i believe it's probably orchestrated some somewhere in the dark corners as well i mean look what we have here we have mccarthyism two point zero even if you sh

military assistance to russia what effect if any will they have on russia. well i believe president putin was right that these sacked lose will have no effect there counterproductive they only lay only build out a monster the hysteria among the population russia does not need us military assistance or russia has developed coming age cutting edge i should say aircraft cutting edge tanks cutting edge anti aircraft systems which are in demand all over the world and by imposing sanctions on russia all the how all the u.s. is really doing is forcing russia to become even more self-sufficient than it was before and becoming more creative and more dynamic and developing its own system so all these sanctions these military sanctions against russia are going to be have exactly the opposite effect that the u.s. administration foresaw and in your opinion to what extent is this sentients push being driven by domestic pets call considerations rather than any action that russia may have taken for example. i don't believe russia has done anything in violation of internatio

-russia relationships -- relations. they talked about sanctions, and last month's meeting in helsinki between president trump and russian president vladimir putin . this is just under two hours. sen. corker: foreign relations committee will come to order. we want to thank our witnesses for being here today for the second in a series of hearings on russia. this committee is attempting to get a clearer sense of the administration's overall posture on russia. we thank you both for being here. we have outstanding witnesses today. we would like to understand what was agreed to when the leaders of our two countries sat down in helsinki. whether there were discussions about future arms agreements. today, we have received no real readout, even in a classified setting of this meeting. we would like to understand the administration's assessment of the threat posed by russia to us, to our allies and other countries and institutions around the world. finally, we need a better understanding of how russian sanctions, despite strong o

saudia arabia and russia. and they call the shots in that joint mechanism commission that they have. so, yes, i think opec is becoming less and less important. as far as saudia arabia's gas import from russia, first of all, it's just a proposition. it's just a proeption. it's a political statement made by putin. saudia arabia has this aggressive state program called vision 2030 which, you know, claims to decrease the dependence on oil powers generations. and, you know, it makes sense for them to develop any gas takes more than 7 to 8 years, especially with the gas -- the foreign gas. by the time they launched a program it will take probably ten years or less than that. if they take the substitute gas, they can sign a shorter term with russia. having said that, uae is another major producer. wherever oil is used, gas is used to produce oil. there have been talks between the united states and the secretary who visited saudia arabia and other gulf states to sign these long-term deals. and we heard the deal betwee

sanctions on russia restrictions are in response to what washington says russia is poisoning of double agent. and his daughter back in march to face relies on the u.s. funded experts to tackle the influence on its platform we take a look at how it affects freedom of speech online also to kill many more i find these images just over forty civilians including children were reportedly killed to society airstrike their school bus in yemen the coalition says it was a legitimate military operation in accordance with international law and the straw island is demanding the return of a sacred statue more than one hundred years ago the supply of british museum we are service is it should be given. we've got a. british empire i think. but i think it's part of our heritage so it's just it's straight. hello there are seven pm here in moscow you're watching the international that moscow is calling on britain to make public its work on making star military toxic substances this comes after america. penalties for what it calls moscow's poisoning of double agents powell and his daughter in the u.k. bac

sanctions on russia restrictions are a response to what washington abuses russia's poisoning of double agents powell and his daughter in march also. relies on us from the experts to tackle foreign influence on its platform we take a look at how it effects freedom of speech online also and you might find the upcoming pictures just being over forty civilians including children reportedly killed as a saudi airstrike the school bus in yemen the coalition says it was a legitimate military operation in accordance with international law. demanding the return of the sacred statues of stone more than one hundred years ago and now on display at the british museum we are physics is there it should be given back. we've got a. british empire. and i think it's part of our heritage so it's just our history. for the welcome just gone six pm here in moscow you with r.t. international. is calling on britain to make public its work on making stars military toxic substances this comes after america unveiled fresh penalties for what it calls moscow's poisoning of double agents powell and his daughter in th

russia russia all the time rather than making the adjustments in their own policy to try to win an election so yeah that could be time for that november election but i don't see how that strategy works very well now despite what the actual concerns of. an actual americans we seem to be stuck in perpetual deja vu more accusations of meddling more sanctions coming forward is that all we have to look forward to in the future. i'm afraid that that's what it looks like right now but eventually there it will have to come to an end but this and i think it will be when they finally dawns on them that it's not working and that might not be until the two thousand and twenty presidential election when we'll see whether that insurgency on the right in the left that brought trump and brought standards to the to the door of the nomination and to the presidency if that starts up again in two thousand and twenty will they be able to still blame russia for this for this dissatisfaction inside the american population for issues that were created by american rules and american congress and american presidents

because if the democrats lose it's going to be russia exactly it's going to be russia's fault so russia is the ultimate scapegoat you know it's the paranoia of not knowing what you don't know who there's going to be some meddling but how when where are the assumption that it's going to be reminded that the election has not yet happened and it's going to be in november going to solve something. but then of course is already a saint had over the national intelligence director saying that there is evidence about russian involvement and we have lindsey graham who has just advised president trump to check the so-called ball that putin gave him and house and get to check it for k.g.b. bugs we have this very same person elaborating with other senators this new draft of all which is called if i'm not mistaken or the translation protecting american security of from the kremlin sic ration books thousand and eighteen so these guys they can forsee the future they can see how russia is mad and interested every minute i really don't this remind me it's kind of a bad episode of the twilight zone ok th

airspace mopin has been gauging what americans make of the latest moves against russia. well if you watch the recent hearings on capitol hill american politicians or rather al spoke out about what they think about these new moves against russia ongoing efforts to interfere in our sacrosanct election process seize and those of our allies are just some of the unacceptable behaviors of the putin regime putin wants to break apart the american republic russia's attempts to interfere in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election are well and widely known russia has undertaken a campaign of malign activities in its attempt to compete with us our allies and our partners and cats up to thirty one gives us more tools with which to respond however a new gallup poll shows that among the u.s. public fifty eight percent that's well over half favor improving relations between the usa and russia and that it's just over a third thirty six percent that say they want further steps against moscow and now we decided to go out on the streets of new york and talk to people about t

she's saying, russia, russia, russia, but i don't -- maybe it was. i mean, it could be russia, but it could also be china. it also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. okay? >> there's the 400-pound thing. then as a candidate and now more than a year and a half into his presidency donald trump has let russia off the hook again and again and again. calling into question the assessments of his own intelligence chiefs that russia interfered in the 2016 election and will do the same thing again. even in today's let's call it what it really is, kabuki theater in the briefing room, the national security adviser john bolton could only point to what putin said about election interference, not what president trump said. >> in fact, president putin said, i thought at the press conference but certainly in the expanded bilateral meeting when the two leaders got together with their senior advisers, president putin said the first issue that president trump raised was election meddling. >> so take off your tribal hats and your conservative

you know misled by russia or russia is behind it and you know even though there are genuine grievances to be had with you know all sorts of things that and russia plays a minor role if any in you know on the internet do you buy the idea that all this racism and all this division and all these protests are all caused by russia. no i honestly think it's just what i want to highlight is the intersectionality of what happened today like there were a small amount of white supremacists here but there are a lot of people who are coming to counter protest them so i don't blame russia well i was just a run of straw poll but the russia did it montrose of course but i quit for some time now even russophobe has gotten increasingly out of the swallow. i. mean time with a new still in the states a hacking contest has revealed that it doesn't take a top notch rushing computer expert to get into america's election infrastructure turns out in fact seems an eleven year old can do it perfectly well as you leap to trying to report. learn more about the twenty hacking contest that's what the link says and

campaign going on there marianna here in russia because. russia seems to be pushing for international cooperation on syrian refugees returning now they say that the war is basically over the so-called islamic state has been basically defeated that's a line that we hear in russia again and again and it would be a big diplomatic win for russia if they could be playing a key part in having those refugees returned they have been holding press briefings here in the ministry of defense nearly every week for the last month or so they've set up a refugee center and they also have made a proposal to the u.s. to to draw up a joint action plan on the return of refugees so perhaps. putin will make some sort of proposal to america today when it comes to that as well particularly taking into consideration as well that that has been a difficult issue for america all at home as well refugee paul policy refugee policy has really come under a lot of criticism at home including from her political allies so perhaps putin sees a bargaining chip there that he ca

biological weapon russia denies the claims. the u.s. senate asked to interview the head of wiki leaks on alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixth the election. has repeatedly denied that moscow had anything to do with election related documents exposed by wiki leaks. and social media giants are accused of silencing debate after twitter suspends several prominent libertarian and conservative figures for alleged hate speech. thanks for joining us here on r.t. to match the life from moscow and. welcome to the program. moscow has responded to the new u.s. sanctions over the poisoning of. his daughter in the u.k. in a statement the russian embassy in washington said the u.s. has provided no evidence that moscow was in any way involved this comes after some serious accusations were leveled at moscow. the united states the six two thousand and eighteen determined that the government of the russian federation has used chemical biological weapons against its own nationals following a fifteen day congressional that if you cation peri

russia as a state sponsor of terror. from the kremlin aggression act, introduced by senators graham and others on august 2. i wrote an op-ed not long ago that the moral designation is -- case for a designation is sound. russia as a state sponsor of terror. russia has invaded its neighbors, georgia and ukraine and supports the murderous regime of bashar al-assad and is engaged in active information warfare against western democracies, putting meddling in the 2016 united states election. as we have talked about here, continuing to attempt to influence the elections going forward. to both of you, do you believe the russian federation has supported acts of international terrorism, including assassinations on foreign soil? mr. billingslea? yes or no? sec. billingslea: they have definitely engaged in outrageous behavior. -- salivary attack is salisbury attack. more than once. sen. gardner: secretary mitchell? sec. mitchell: i agree with the premise. i don't want to get ahead of our deliberative ross as about what to do about i

imposes new sanctions on russia in the case of the poison the excess body and his daughter how will this affect president trump's efforts to improve relations with the kremlin we'll get the latest from washington. and bell are also arrests journalists among them w.'s correspondent paul york because he could be the beginning of a crackdown on the media there. i'm dr thomas thanks so much for joining us we're starting this program with the story of a former officer of the turkish navy now living as a refugee in belgium now this man is one of thousands of military personnel purged by the turkish government for allegedly taking part in the failed coup two years ago many other officers like him have been accused of terrorism and are now behind bars in turkey in this exclusive report terry scholz talks with the former turkish officer and former nato diplomat who fears he could be snatched up at any time by turkish government agents. peaceful days with his family are something former turkish naval officer just for talking wasn't sure he'd ever happen again after president relative tie a pair to

russia russia is was going to be continued.

russia slams newly enforced u.s. sanctions a slow witted in baseless vowing a response congress is also reviewing even more aggressive measures to get small scale that could hit later in the year. we can bring even more economic pain into the we will not hesitate to do so and its contract does not demonstrably and significantly change. also the migration center staff who said they face almost daily violence and abuse now from asylum seekers and they care to make the claims to local media after a series of incidents also. i i . protesters pulled out a controversial confederate statue in the university of north carolina in the u.s. as anger flares over links to white supremacist. historical context or forgetting why those statues stand trial statues were not nice. morning eight am wednesday the twenty second of august here in moscow when i was kevin oh and you live with r.t. international smalling so first than the first batch of the most recent us sanctions against russia come into force today they focus on exports of

we got a new supply route in afghanistan open through russia, flying soldiers through russia the first since world war ii that happened, that allowed us to not be dependent on pakistan as we were at the time that we joined the government. over 90% of our supplies back in 2005 went through pakistan. and that allowed us to bring the war against terrorists inside pakistan, including most directly and dramatically in 2011 when we killed osama bin lauden. when vladimir putin came back, there was no disagreement in the white house. i was still at the white house. but things were going to get difficult. i had written for years about putin and joined the white house. i don't think anybody would accuse me about being naive of vladimir putin. he so doesn't like my views about him he has banned me from traveling to russia. i'm the first ambassador since george ten an to not be allowed to travel to russia. >>> the question, you have to deal with who is in place. you don't get to choose their leaders. we tried. we tried to engage with mr. putin. and when things went south, we then put together a ne

but it's worth noticing that over this time russia's involvement was limited to limited. airstrikes in support of syrian government forces attacks so now it is the last remaining discoloration zone which is not under us its control russia definitely wants it to be under this control the entire story is different with this because turkey is involved then kurdish issue is also on the agenda here in this and this issue and this is why it's more complicated on the one the one hand moscow needs to continue its consistent approach to demonstrate that it backs it. and wants it to take the territory and then turkey is in the patna important partner for usha and it also needs to take into account its own interests. hides the most powerful man in ad lib . only the leader of head to head in a sham said basically of the. of the national front said basically that his group is determined to fight to the death in. is this something that could give us an indication about what might happen next in italy. well definitely because first of all we have to take into consideration the. basicall

now when it comes to that russia russia question the crowd is not unified but they are unified in denouncing these forces that are assembled in front of the white house there are a lot of signs invoking memories of what happened one year ago in charlottesville there are a lot of signs invoking the black lives matter movement and opposition to police brutality we're seeing a lot of different political forces represented out here community organizations school groups religious organizations a lot of different folks here to counter the very very small crowd of roughly twenty four individuals associated with white supremacist and white nationalist organizations so huge huge turnout here in d.c. to denounce the folks gathered around the white house where there unite the right two point zero rally huge mobilization lots of different forces here lots of different causes represented all of them denouncing the ku klux klan white supremacy ism so quite a diverse crowd out here so far we have not heard any reports of any by. and there anyone being injured huge police presence we are hearing the sound o

with respect to russia. russia has undertaken a campaign of malign activities in its attempt to compete with us, our allies and our partners. and catsa 231 gives us more tools with which to respond. we focus in particular on transactions with the russian arms industry. for multiple reasons. first of all, these are often the same arms that russia itself uses, continues to use for aggression against ukraine, for example. the world should shun transactions of that sort. second, as willy sutton is reported that when he robbed banks, that is where the money is. high-technology military equipment is one of the only competitive sectors of the russian economy these days. and moscow makes a good deal of money from selling arms abroad. these funds fuel the malign activities spread influence and support russia's development of new and even more deadly weapons. so use sanctions tools to go after those revenues. more broadly, russia continues to use its arms transactions as a tool of geopolitical influence. for russia, i

that's that's the point so i mean you creative also said that it undermines the efforts for russia to return crimea and that's another topic as well i mean they're also going to be talking about ukraine and you know the fact that crimea has been onyx almost four years ago what's the point of even discussing that at this point well i don't think that putin will spend a minute discussing crimea he made it clear again at the helsinki summit that crimea this is for him a settled issue what is going to be talked about is of course used in ukraine and there is a need for that too good to be done so. very much for joining us here in studio if it welcome. that's it for now you are watching d.w. news coming to you live from berlin and we will have more news again at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the news and information as around the clock on our web site. called strength. works. and. long twenty. hours. jurors or. killed many civilians.

just to your life not just in russia but. you know in perenchio russia it's a challenge the first six months were really kind of hard in part because i was alone in the dormitory once i got a cat and start making friends and i had people to meet.

russia views the tightening of u.s. sanctions as the breakout of an economic war after washington announces new penalties are for the poisoning of double agents or gets to bomb and his daughter. the u.s. democratic party wants facebook to share data on users who's fallen for fake news so we can tell them what's right social networks are already being accused of censorship or banning controversy all show host alex jones. also this hour disturbing video emerges from yemen leaving humanitarian groups and the public stunned with the appalling saudi coalition air strike on a school bus in yemen the great claimed the lives of twenty nine children with thirty more injured. and the legacy of terror we hear from families in southern russia desperate for news of loved ones who want to join the islamic state terror group many had young children are also missing. or will hold that it will be ok that somehow it will all be ok i just feel so sorry for the children it's so difficult when you don't know where exactly your children are.

russia's government. i know my constituents are clear-eyed about these threats, the ukrainian community in ohio and around the world knows firsthand like our nato allies, in latvia and lithuania, the dangers of unchecked russian aggression. we should implement current russian sanctions and strengthen our response. these hearings are a critical next step. thank you for the three of you for joining us today, i'm interested to hear where we are. what effects if any the sanctions regime is having on russia's economy and more importantly on its behavior and your ideas on how we will more forcefully confront these threats in the months to come. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator brown. >> today we will hear testimony from three administration official who is deal firsthand with confronting the russia threat. we will first hear testimony from ms. sigal mandelker. the acting deputy secretary and current undersecretary of treasury for terrorism and financial crimes. who is the country's chief sanctions

sanctions on russia the restrictions are in response to what washington views as russia's poisoning double agent powell and his daughter in march also to face book allies on nato and u.s. funded experts to tackle foreign influence on its platform we take a look at how it affects freedom of speech online resource a word of warning though these images disturbing. over forty civilians including children were reportedly killed as a saudi airstrike his school bus in yemen the coalition says it was a big just a military operation in accordance with international law and the straw islands demanding the return of a sacred statue stolen more than one hundred years ago and now on display at the british museum we asked visitors if we should be given. this whole. list british empire i think it's stuff he's been retired and i think it's heritage so it's just our history. fellow that's four pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the kremlin has denounced new u.s. sanctions against russia calling them unacceptable and not conforming to international law on wednesday america unveiled fre

and russia? i party said my main conclusion which is we have to see how we are and how it aren't important. we are not important for them in the way we think they are enough in the way we say they are. the europeans are actually much more important and what's false for that is the best way to have the european policy. anything that is remotely thinkable right now, but the best way is to have the e.u. policy in the ukraine policy. those are but actually make some difference. the second thing that follows is on questions -- operational questions of actual security, there's no reason we can't talk and can't talk in review on things that actually have to do with nuclear weapons as opposed to the distraction destruction on the internet or on sputnik. they actually have to do with hard-core national security. there's no reason we can't talk to them and they can talk to us. >> that leads me to my next question, which is several times a day in the book you describe the united states has used the term sle

in russia slams newly enforced u.s. think sions as counterproductive and meaningless this valley to respond congress is also mulling over even more aggressive measures against moscow that could lead to the seer. a very warm welcome to the program from the whole crew here at r.t. h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour there's been plenty of talk this wednesday over dull terms presidency which now appears to be in a precarious position less than two years in two of the president's former associates have been found guilty of federal crimes and that's put trump in hot water as his ex lawyer has implicated him as the orchestrator of campaign and financial violations and the media is already getting in a spin over possible impeachment. going to be impeached with this i think the beginning has to be set and mark right now and wolf we're in a watergate moment but there is i think a lot for the president to fear impeachment endlessly discussed in mainstream media discourse today it seems became a little more realistic fo

russia and everywhere in between i think that it's appropriate that the united states and russia as the major new. cleaner weapons powers meet and get rid of those damn things before they destroy us i think it's critical for the united states and russia as two of the nations doing the most to destroy our natural environment to meet and start reversing all the policies david that's not so much of the agenda. i mean complete agreement with you in this they would they would hear what why it seems to me that. trump engagement with russia should come out very clear twitter is fine with me and i need to deal with a lot of near putin to sign a new arms control agreement it's about to expire in two thousand and twenty one this is what's most important to all of humanity why can't it it's right that i mean that is very straight forward and you know what david it's transactional what trump is supposed to be all about go ahead david well it would make perfect sense it would fit with some of his agenda of body it is not where he comes from it's not something he knows anything about it's not som

russia's isolation through those sanctions. the former while we don't know each other well enough but i'm amazed by her ability to listen to. this because there was so little sister who does know that the russian president likes to drink german beer and sometimes there is a possibility that we can make exchanges i have also gotten very good smoked fish because. i know from time to time since a couple of pulls off round the back. of the flight from moscow to berlin is quite a few i was at a bit of a shorter journey here he was until very recently in neighboring austria where he was attending the wedding of the foreign minister cody and close to the business one. may linger that was a personal invite by the austrian foreign minister despite the can trouble seeing criticism about inviting mr putin to help pass the wedding from various parties that didn't stop stop by mr putin having a bit of a celebration a bit of a dog with the maid to before he made his way out signing the limousine with his autograph i say left and wishing me a

russia russia less than one half of one percent of the american public considers this an important story trouble for as i said several meetings now with the russian president he's had the press conference obviously despite as you say this drumbeat of russian meddling russian collusion etc was that when you stopped you know don't stop trying to make some sort of at least because we haven't said to to make amends with russia do you think this will get in the way of those efforts. i think it will certainly get away of these efforts if he's removed and i think that's the ultimate goal of this campaign i think that one trump promised during the two thousand and sixteen campaign that among his most important agenda items would be to improve relations with russia and let's remember every single american president going way back well to to rosa to roosevelt and stalin thought that we had to have some kind of reasonable relationship with first russia and now the u.s. is our trump wanting to return to that is treated as some literally is being accused of treason for one of the say that so i think

russia. things some incredible that we just got out of russia for this exhibition specifically. you will not see it in any other space in the united states. i don't know if you can see it in any other space in russia. so now would be a great time to take a look. a no more timely time than now to get a better understanding about what's going on with the united states and russia, and i'm really excited about the speaker. i do love teachers in the front row. that's a really great idea. all the time. welcome not only to the teacher fellows that we are so set in to be partnership with, i look forward to seeing you guys on thursday, but also to those of you who are here from the seminar that's currently being hosted at the national world war i museum of memorial as well. outre so pleased and check all of his websites to find out more. if you are listening right now on c-span, you not want to miss a future truman teaching museumnity or what are at the world war.org. there really is such a pleasure t

there have been, these states have been petro states, both russia, russia's not a petro state that the gulf countries have been there. why was it comply with russia successful in tapping into the market come in building these relations? i think there is a regional reason for this and also macro economic processes that happen simultaneously at the same time. first of all, the chaos that was created after the vacuum that was created after the arab spring and united states didn't interfere in the region that much, following the new conflicts in the region have greater of vacuum and russia felt the right time to interfere and to become a player in the region. but the more important process happen and there are two processes actually. the first was the oil prices plummeted in 2015, but what's interesting, it happened at the same time with yes, and the west applied sanctions to russia. so as russia is constantly in a state of paranoia, being encroached, a were saying, they were hinting that the united states was behind the price plummeting, directly by intelligence offices. so they understoo

and russia. more than a month after president trump's helsinki meeting, we remain in the dark about what the two leaders discussed. we continue to hear more information, accurate or not, from the russian government and from our own. it is not only embarrassing, but i believe this lack of transparency has implications for our national security. i'm not convinced that those who need to know in our own executive branch have a full understanding of what happened. after more than three hours with secretary pompeo, this committee has little more insight and we did before the hearing. since the administration has failed to answer congressional information,rovide i am formally requesting the department to provide all classified and unclassified cable traffic related to the helsinki meeting. i won't spend time today running through russia's ongoing transgressions. i think president trump's and others have warned that russia continues to undermine our democracy. russia uses chemical weapons to attack its o

or proposing with russia? >> absolutely, senator. there's an extensive inner agency on the sanctions with the state department, with the department of energy, and of course with our closest allies and partners. >> mr. krebs, your testimony, you note, leadership role, the department plays in conducting elections, coordinating efforts to assess vulnerabilities and mitigate risk. within this structure, dhs also plays an important role in sharing information with election officials. i've visited with county clerk and officers in kansas with personnel within our secretary of state's office that conducts oversight on management of elections in our state. what steps has dhs taken to ensure that information intelligence is shared with local officials? my general impression is that while there's concern by election officials, they don't know the direct nature of any threat. >> so we have prioritized security clearances for state and local election officials, i think right now we're up to 92, and that includes every sin

so i surely said russia georgia. later you find out through the european commission that in fact it was georgia that a terror cell just said to you it was not a fear of the mainstream media they reported that russia started the conflict and said nothing about soccer surely opening fire on the night of the beginning of the olympics in beijing i talked to many people i've posted many things on the internet letting people know the truth about what really happened and now i think it's a. very careful means if i'm laughing at the house and rain too much and in my own dr drew france maybe it's air security and armor much of it but i know that i wouldn't want to sleep alone there's this one window in my room they sleep in there is like a crack in them but i would i would remember oh that's from the war center was afraid she was saying you know she was afraid that the suction really was going to be there and he was in the soldiers have to us every year when we went back for several years she had those feelings.

relationship with russia mr michael said depends on europe and russia finding a mutual agreement in progress when it comes to the minute's peace agreement on the continuing conflict in. praying so it seems that as the u.s. continues to isolate itself from longstanding such as you european union that could be no paving the way to new relationships with other countries to manage. political analysts that may call a medic of it thinks that nato may have to transform due to internal fractures what is changing now is first of all what donald trump has said during his political campaign that he felt that nader was obsolete i think you know the ripples of what donald trump centering his campaign on will his position is macro is getting good on time well with donald trump so i think he's testing this out on the american public don't forget that this is a very important for macro who is preparing the next european elections i don't think it means that it's going to be the end of nato but definitely do see that nato as an institution and dating back to nine hundred forty nine is cracking from

for really a confrontational position against russia and then he gets to russia i'm going to helsinki and meets with putin and the american media says this is the surrender some vendor some and acting as if you know here's a united states spend seven hundred eighty billion dollars on war every year russia spent sixty billion and you had russia's on the march you know early and rideable and russia is that then spending is on decline right now ok it's not being increased here early does the united states need brushes an enemy is this the because it to justify all of these expenditures ok i mean brian is a logic lee looking at it but logic good politics don't always parlay ok i mean sensually we need an enemy it justifies is here montenegro is good it is adding value added to nato defense ok montenegro his army is smaller than the new york police force ok but we need an enemy here is that would russia's purposes because it's really easy to paint russia is as an enemies because it because it really demands stubbornly its sovereignty go ahead irl. i agree pete peter i mean we meet we mean

one from the united states russia wants to be left alone russia has its own problems russia is still undergoing a major restructuring and the americans have managed to weaponize finance they can cause a lot of damage by blocking people from the international financial system they block them from the dollar system first but then the european banks are all running scared of the u.s. treasury so they can do substantial damage and yes the political dialogue in here in washington has become a little more surly a sub that means there's the assumption that somehow of your some circumstances russia is going to buckle but that is a wrong assumption russia is most certainly not going to buckle and russia has survived very well everything they've thrown at it for the simple reason that russia has a very conservative fiscal and monetary policy the central bank has done an excellent job of insulating russia from the sharks but it's still very incomplete. this draft all has not yet been published by the n.c.a. gramp has already like that and that's why i think when they they proposed that they wen

to investigate alleged russia has so far only exposed. to campaign violations where is the closure you know they're still looking for closure where would you find some kind of leadership coming up to russia. today slow witted and baseless. congress is also reviewing even more aggressive measures against the. us to keep faces accusations in the u.k. that it's promoting. the release of controversial new sports where my immediate reaction is a terrorist. to me at all i don't think you. see. i there just one peer most good time this wednesday the twenty second of august one welcome to you thanks for being with us today about international so there is a plenty of talk this wednesday over donald trump's presidency which now appears to be in a precarious position less than two years into it to the president's former associates have pleaded guilty to federal crimes is a headache for trump it's put him in hot water as his ex lawyers implicated him as the orchestrator of campaign and violate and financial violations figures this day little pieces a

good food russia sharing goodness. slow witted and baseless russia had forced us sanctions a response congress is also reviewing even more aggressive measures against moscow that could hit later in the year. in the headlines today elsewhere donald trump's presidency appears on shaky ground after two former associates plead guilty to numerous counts of federal crimes he is serious doubts over the integrity of the president's election campaign you a live update on that plus an i.q. faces accusations in the u.k. that it's promoting gang culture after the release of controversial new sportswear . my immediate reaction is the terrorist problem is i'm from canada i thought all i think of is someone being warned is not appealing to me at all i don't think you should be allowed in banks and. by midday moscow time wednesday the twenty second of august as it is my name is kevin zero in this is art international live the news room here at r.t. h.q. first then the first part of the most recent u.s. sanctions against russia come in