have you heard about the russian doping scandal no i haven't heard. i don't know about is this a repeat yes i. have never heard this i know in the uk and it's called. i heard he used the medicine. and her face i don't know that it's true needs to be received. 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 sout

but it's possible that the russians might be willing to get onboard. if not, then how does the like minded conversation go? while you could develop slightly broader set of norms, i think that people would agree with that might include, for example, not interfering with infrastructure during peacetime. then the question is, okay, that is nice. you and nato countries have all agreed on this norm. how does that impact the russians? will that affect their behavior at all? and i guess what you have to maybe you have to take a long term view here which is if we think that is a proper norm to develop generally, then we should try to start developing it with our allies and maybe at some point we have 100 countries signed on it to and at some point on the margins that could affect russian behavior and how others react. but it is a much softer move. finally in, the bilateral context, there are suspicions on both side. questions of at bugs are very hard in cyberspace and questions ben forcement are hard. >> sorry, i was interjecting. >> sure. >> let me take this

crime, russian financial crime, russian money laundering, russian corruption than i did and i knew quite a bit. >> according to winer, steel occasionally provided reports on developments inside putin's russia to his colleagues at the state department. >> the people working russia all the time valued the reports. they thought they were well-sourced. they thought they were remarkably timely. >> the state department wasn't the only u.s. agency to rely on christopher steel. >> i understood he had a relationship with the fbi relating to the fifa soccer scandal and had been a significant source for them in making cases in that area. >> in 2016, though, the americans calling christopher steel weren't fbi agents. the call he got in 2016 was from a small washington research firm called fusion gps. fusion gps was founded by former wall street journal reporters. this is how one of fusion's founders glen simpson described his company's mission when he spoke at a 2009 investigation of reporting. >> we're hoping that people who have an interest in bringing things out do something about corruption and

my wife is russian my staff is russian. these are the best people on our but they've been terribly mistreated by these vicious criminals that are occupying their country. host: can russia help us with regard to north korea? guest: i believe china is the key to north korea, not russia. putin always tries to insert himself into the international situation to become a spoiler. he could certainly cause harm to our situation in north korea. i wouldn't be surprised if some of the nasty stuff coming out of north korea has russian fingerprints on it. host: i want to put on the screen a photograph from the 1980's. president reagan in >> isaac think it was a bad mistake. -- i think it was a bad mistake. it is a very sad thing that way vladimirh the putin quietly came in and took over the country for his own needs. host: good morning. you had a collar a minute to go saying something about could and it not being a ass murderer -- you had collar a minute ago saying something about who did not being a mass murderer. putin not being a mas

a russian figure skating coach touched you know. broke down in tears when she learned of the decision. slovenia which still because they see there are no words you know i don't want to cry i want to scream it's sad that we won't be at the games as a team but the russian flags will be flying it's devastating that there will be no tears of joy as you hear your national anthem but nobody is prohibited from singing the anthem i think that if there are victories and if there are athletes who want to participate and when i think we'll hear them singing. that was. our correspondent an associate churkin a is now in a loss and she filled us in on the decisions taken concerning the russian olympic team. it's been a very difficult day here obviously with so many eyes from around russia watching the announcement that would come from this room here in los down where the international olympic committee executive board made a final decision on the future of russia when it comes to these next winter olympic games coming up in just two months from n

the russian ellin peons in south korea and most importantly after to discuss that i'm now joined by the chant russia says to pull jump gold medalist at the ninety nine to five world indoor championship in barcelona. chan it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time. first of all let's talk about the latest developments there international paralympic committee said it was maintaining its suspension of the russian paralympic committee to make the final decision on whether the russians can compete against twenty winter games in january vote i think it's called this little paralympic athletes are in a tough situation. from russia is can spot why do you think that just shouldn't they be treated in the same way since one top human the world anti-doping agency reports started the whole thing where do these differences in conclusions and policies come from. agree the treatment is very different as you remember our paralympic athletes were banned from the rio games which is very strange because team russia competed in the olympics well but without the track and field athletes you

the russian british chamber of commerce and the russian federation's trade representative to britain tons of mainstream media horror stories about moscow's expense easing nine teeth into a bid for economic partnership in fin bowl this is coming up in part two of this special russia u.k. trade ties edition i'm going underground. here's what people have been saying about redacted in night just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to lunch you know a lot of the really packed a punch. yam is the john oliver of harvey americans do the same we are apparently better than food. and see people you never heard of love back to the night my president of the world bank though they didn't write me. send us an e-mail join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sport business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back we're still at the russian british business forum twenty seventeen at the queen elizabeth the second center in westminster and joining me now is the chair of the board of directors of the russian british cha

was warned about russians. did you ever have any contact with any russians? >> no, i did not. i never had any russians. >> i'm surprised nobody ever asked me that. >> did you have any knowledge of anybody on your campaign having contact with any russians? >> no, they have not had any contact with any russians? >> did you know about anybody lying about any contact with the russians? did you think that if anybody had -- i guess what's so abnormal is, peter baker is right. there is nothing wrong with just having a meeting with russians. there's nothing right about it either. it may not be illegal but normal campaigns do not huddle with russians. >> even ones where, you know, hillary was former secretary of state. so there were a lot of people on the campaign that -- >> george bush was the president and we didn't hear from any russians. >> and we didn't hear from -- there was one time where the ambassador reached out via somebody else to have a meeting with staff and they said, thanks we're not going to do that. bu

political system but isn't that what the alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election set out to achieve in the first place. well this is actually the popular strategy of the creative stuff with the kremlin brand it means simply turns the tables we are facing this strategy with all topics whether the alledged russian interference in the us election all persecution of minorities whether muslim freedom of expression or other issues will even the build a fake news and disinformation and all the accusations that the west makes to the russians of russians simply return following with the slogan you do the same if not worse as for the alledged meddling no matter if that's right not to moscow's goal may have been to make americans think how powerful and influential the kremlin is no matter if that's right on the lot and briefly before we run into armor putin also spoke about russia being penalized ahead of the winter olympics because of der big or did he have to say well he has said surprisingly that some russian athletes would have a job but athletes abroad do that as well and t

they believe is linked to russian intelligence. these were released and used by the republican, the house intelligence, national republican congressional committee, which is the house republican aspect arm of the rnc. they were using these ads and ultimately it was weaponized. and many of these candidates used the ads against their democratic opponents. so whether or not it had a dramatic effect on the outcome of these races, whether or not that's true, we don't know. but the fact is that the republicans took this information and they used it, and that is really problematic. >> you heard paul ryan, they were talking about that he had a lot to do with directing the overall campaign for the republicans and he's closely connected to reince priebus. is there any reporting that paul ryan may be asked about his involvement and whether guccifer 2.0 intersected with what he was doing? >> there has been reporting to suggest paul ryan may be questions about what he knew, because he did oversee the entire operation. and as you mentioned befor

his contacts with the then russian ambassador to the u.s. flynn became the first former white house official to be charged in the so-called russia investigation but. explains fake news is masking what the probe into alleged collusion is actually uncovered after almost a year of investigations into whether team trump and big bad russia were in on it together the only concrete things to come out of those inquiries is a couple charges of making false statements and a shocking revelation that we knew a year ago this building doesn't see anything necessarily. you know appropriate about between members of the incoming administration and foreign officials or what country they're for you know right now and again this is an ongoing we have no. you know your comments are no problem with them doing search on their own the obama administration saw no issue in michael flynn's conversations with the then russian ambassador because it was par for the course but that didn't stop the media running wild over his guilty plea for in fact checking to the wind li

we've made tremendous progress uncovering the facts of russian interference in our elections. archimedes work helped expose the dark underbelly of disinformation -- our committees -- on many social media platforms. we've successfully pressed with a full accounting of russian cyber efforts to target our state electoral systems. and despite the initial denials of any russian contact during the election, this committees efforts have helped uncover numerous and troubling high-level engagements between the trump campaign and russian affiliates, many of which have only been revealed in recent months. we've got a lot of work to do yet. our committee has gone out of its way to ensure continued bipartisan backing for this effort. and i'm committed to seeing thet effort through. however, it should be c very clr that our committee cannot and will not stand as a substitute for mr. mueller's investigation. as chairman burr and i've noted on many occasions, the fbi is responsible foror determining ay criminal activities related to this inquiry. as such, mohler has only moved to indict to in

you mentioned russian team and. olympic team is in a limbo because russians can't participate in the winter olympics under their own flag they will have to compete as squared of. athletes plus we have the absence of n.h.l. how do you think that will affect the whole tournaments that's not something new for the olympics absence of the n.h.l. now the russian team competing on the national flag. i think that. there has been so much talk already but the by the time the. tribes afrique we all forget that i hopefully we can focus in the tournament on the games and i know that you know it's been a tough year for hockey. and it still is not. coming and that the russians. tough time for the tourist course you know. for their hockey but i think that both with time will heal on the. other no less than sixty days to go for this going to be where you know we could really focus in the city so you're saying the ant absence of n.h.l. this strange situation with russian hockey players competing under national flak is not going to af

adoption of russian children. these e-mails create many hard questions about whether those two explanations stand up. one, people involved in these meetings did have follow up. they discussed what was discussed in that meeting. there were ideas back and forth exchanged via e-mail but it also raises questions about what topics actually came up between those russians promising damaging information on hillary clinton and senior members of the trump team. i'm going to give you an example. june 14th, 2016, this is five days after the trump tower meeting. the person who brokered this meeting, rob goldstein, a publicist, e-mails one of the russians and this is on the day that news breaks that russia has hacked into dnc e-mails. he copies and isn't this, quote, e eerily weird and one said it was an innocent explanation. because we did not discuss the dnc breach in that meeting in trump tower, that's the reason that it was weird that five days later the story broke that, in fact, russia broke the dnc. whether you believe t

craving for kids battles against russian backed separatists. and a new cease fire agreement gives hope to millions of people displaced by fighting. new sanctions targeting north korea's fuel imports resolution drafted by the u.s. will ban the ninety percent of refined petroleum products exports to pyongyang kim jong un's right james is already under u.s. u.n. and e.u. sanctions after conducting several new missile tests this year that have drawn widespread condemnation like hannah has worn the united nations in new york. well what has been a sometimes divided year for the security council draws to an end with a display of unity the resolution on north korea tightening sanctions passed unanimously and tighten the sanctions it does there's a massive reduction in the amount of refining the fuel that is north korea would be allowed to import also or trouble bairn an asset freeze on a number of individuals and one entity the north korean army well this resolution followed intense talks between the united states russia and china to ensure that all we

russian paralympic athletes are the final decision on the russian paralympic sportsman will be announced in january the russian president daniel recently said that doing a blanket ban doesn't make any sense a it's not fair but b. if there is an individual or a few people who have broken the rules who are doping then hold those people to account but doing a blanket ban across the entire team is you know we're talking about athletes who have trained not just all year but some of these athletes have been training most of their lives their careers in sports how many hopes and dreams have just been dashed by the news that was just posted online today that's right maureen we interviewed many of those paralympic athletes last year last summer when you remember when they were suspended from rio. very short notice the taste and the heartbreak the disappointment was was evidence in in many of those quite emotional interviews that we did perhaps we can show some of them a little later but just going back to the fundamental crux of this year already which is dealing with doping. i mean. all those th

from turkmenistan we see their rights so the russian citizens and russian speaking citizens why late into a stand i would like to for example yesterday. i was kidnapped i would ask russia to request for information about her and by a certain. but it. was not just the russian citizen he was also a citizen of turkmenistan actually you know when you have to your citizenship. the conflict is going to you're involved in trouble with the law the law enforcement the universal practice and there is no alternative to this practice. this case is tried should be tried under the law of the country where he or she currently resides still we checked with deep previous. fantasist then government as we always do. whenever there is a crisis involving russian citizens look at it properly i'm talking about the woman who went missing yesterday and that we don't know about this but we never leave our people like. national attended. soon as we find out about a situation. in turkmenistan or any other country in the united states in the european countries you need share for. things like that happen all the

on tuesday the russian team was banned from competing at the twenty. eighteen winter olympics international olympic committee chiefs reach that decision based on the findings of an independent investigation into alleged state sponsored doping however individual athletes who can prove they are clean will be allowed to compete under a neutral flag. these you know i did ask elites or will participate in between individual or team competitions under the name olympic else leads from russia. no one thought about what it actually means for the athletes to go to the olympics under a neutral flag it's simply the murder of our national sport. while the probe headed by former swiss president samuel schmidt found evidence of what they call systemic manipulation of the anti joking rules and system it also led to the suspension of russia's olympic committee and a fifteen million dollars fine however the schmidt report says it's unclear exactly who was behind any typing if it's. nevertheless the independent and impartial evidence do not allow the i.o.c. d.c. to estab

have you heard about the russian don't. know i haven't heard. i don't know about is this a repeat yeah yeah i've never heard this on anything but i. heard he used the medicine. and her face i don't know that each kind of you will see. what do you think the winter olympics would be like without russia. to bring a little bit or so the strongest country. by. people everybody is like. you international soccer game spain the you know and it's not really a game when the biggest player is not there and we don't even see right there. i think it's unfair. that just well this is on the for the winter olympics but you know russia. than a whole country that's so few political stuff. in the south korean capital which is looking forward to the country's first winter olympics that could happen without team russia well it will become a lot clearer when that decision is known and a few hours from now we're keeping close watch on the i.o.c. headquarters for when it is announced will be live in listen to what fate awaits russians winter olympians. the german forei

about the risks posed by a widely used russian company, kaspersky lab. our mission has always been to protect the big and the small... kaspersky lab provides security products designed to protect systems from criminals and hackers. it's used by consumers, and also businesses, and some parts of government. we keep the secrets of global significance... for a system like kaspersky to work, this software requires access to almost all the files on someone's computer, phone or network, to scan for viruses. and the software may also need to communicate back to the company's headquarters in moscow. the fear is that this could be used by the russian state for espionage, stealing secrets. here at britain's national cyber security centre, they say they've not seen actual proof of such espionage, but they believe there is an increased risk. and so today, they've told government departments not to use kaspersky for systems containing sensitive data. this is specifically about entities that may be of interest to the russian government. and so that, for us, is about na

he was asked, did you direct michael flynn to direct sanctions with the russian ambassador? "i didn't but i would have directed them to if i didn't do it." the president saying here, he didn't have anything to do with it but he thought it was a good step to take and if he had thought about it he would've told flynn to do it. we are doing a lot of digging to find out who that transition official was that flynn talked to and what the extent of the conversation was between them. >> harris: and other conversations we know about that we didn't when they were happening, among the people that robert mueller's team has spoken now about michael flynn, with the jared kushner who works inside the white house, the president son-in-law. talk about what you have been able to find out. >> the indications i am on that is that he was crossing the t's and starting the eyes to find out if anybody had any information about flynn before he went ahead and made the charge and agreed to cut the deal with them. as if somebody was holding something in their back pocket that would exonerate flynn, he

of russians of the majority of the russians and the majority of russia. doesn't want to liberal democratic leader we first of all wants to have a strong powerful and but to articulate that could restore. the glory of our country the independence and freedom for our society for our. state and that is the first demand after that the second amendment is not civil society is just social justice i think death. a cold place fulfills very well these bought into joe politics and the distorting celebrity and that is why he's so popular and why we support and keep but he. said. he hasn't done anything to it in order to restore social justice anything keep it in some social aspect he's. a liberal by saying i mean this is a right here because we have to take a very short break but we'll certainly come back to this very interesting subject after every short break statement. snow room good them bridge to come in you stupid to it. yao's knows to. the salk of the poor old polish. grass cutting insisting that we did not in keeping him i am. i was to twenty list. because t

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athletes participating would not be allowed to feature a russian flag you know russian. uniforms depicting the word russia on them all of these symbols that are traditionally seen as very important as the olympic games and of course given the lots of talk unraveling in russia that this kind of decision could be boycotted because it's seen as something that's him admissible since russia has been denying the allegations that have been made against it now obviously we're going to be here watching this the press conference is going to start in an hour and a half so will be here with all the latest details as soon as this crucial decision is made given how big of a double olympic powerhouse russia has traditionally been in the history of these olympic games. now the doping scandal triggered by can twenty fifteen by the report published by a canadian lawyer for the document to prove widespread. doping violations is still being questioned supporting evidence. the damning mclaren reports on alleged state sponsored doping in russia has led to many athletes being stripped of their

coalition stepped in when the russian coalition started bombing. and here are some of the key landmark points of the russian operation in syria. i still used to control very large swathes of syria in fact before russia started bombing its position bombing terrorists there at the request of the syrian government some pundits some geopolitical experts voiced concerns that i still could very well and to damascus at some point now of course this is no longer the case at all the u.s. had had their role in coalition in the country for a long long time lives conducting air strikes against isis before russia started this operation and now with i still essentially losing all of its territory russia is saying that it could very well consider joining american coalition and conducting conduct ok well we've just interrupted that report because a donald trump is making a speech where he's expected to recognize to resign as the capital of israel and that is it that that city and so importantly is israel's capital. this act passed congress by an overwhelming bipar

the campaign colluded with the russians. we don't know the answer. >> we are not there yet. >> we know they have not been truthful about contacts and we have questions about why they were so cozy with them. an experienced lawyer saying something is ridiculous as he was a clinton administration or obama administration official is amateurish and surprising. >> for doesn't stand up. >> that is actually the administration's defense and a lot of this is when you talked to people who are close to jared, talked to people about. >> we have a long day and we will be staying with the story throughout the day. much more when we come back after the break. ♪ there's nothing more important than your health. so if you're on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b here's why. medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. you might want to consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like any medicare supplement insurance

and russians and the chinese from korea the russians and the chinese border north korea rifa nothing happens there they'll get direct impact we are at a time so we'll have to leave it there let's thank our guests nicholai lawrence and of course macharia and thank you to you for watching you can see the show again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com of further discussion head over to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle there is actor a.j. inside story from me sam is a than a halted here for now is good buy. a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the power to account. how does this radical transformation occur. i mean if they mean if you want to shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people at this time on al-jazeera. the new era in television news. it doesn't say that he's a tall studer sings in secret we had actual victims who had survived torture detention and saying t

was talking to the russians. that's the scandal. after they tried the unmasking, they tried uranium one. robert mueller is secretly made of canadian uranium and the christopher steele dossier into the real russia scandal and last week picked a new scandal. texts between peter struck, the deputy assistant director at the fbi and lisa paige, who is an fbi lawyer. paige at one point had worked on the muller investigation but she's been off the team for months. peter struck had initially been part of the muller investigation and removed this summer after the justice department inspector general turned up a bunch of text messages that showed struck and paige communicating at a personal level and expressing various strong political opinions. mueller responded by taking struck back off the team back in june of this year. struck no longer works muellerinvestigations. the texts themselves are evidence mueller's team is bias and there are anti trump sentiments expressed in some of these texts. after trump went after the co

olga ivshina is from the bbc‘s russian service. it's very easy to get the signatures, even his main opponent alexei navalny, who was under heavy pressure, managed to get all the signatures needed quite easily. almost no one doubts that putin will win. what is interesting for the kremlin is that it's very important, turnout is very important, and also the amount of people who will vote for mr putin, because the kremlin sees these elections as a vote of confidence for mr putin and his policy. that's why they do want the turn out to be very high, and also boycott alexei navalny and make it hard for him to achieve the desired goal. syria's armed forces say one of their militaryjets has been downed by insurgents in northern hama province, killing the pilot. the area has seen intense aerial strikes by the russian and syrian airforces in the country's civil war. rescue workers say dozens of civilians have been killed in recent weeks in the bombing of towns away from front lines. i will also bring you some breaking news from syria, coming

when it came to what message to pass on to russian ambassador sergey kislyak about russian sanctions, mike flynn called his deputy katie mcfarland. when it came to what to tell the russians and others about a u.n. resolution about israel, flynn consulted jared kushner. flynn was not a free agent. he had not, to borrow a phrase, gone rogue. "the new york times" reporting, mr. flynn was in close touch with other senior members of the trump transition team both before and after he spoke with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak about american sanctions against russia. joining our panel today, kimberly atkins, chief washington reporter for the boston herald, now an nbc contributor. michael steele, former chairman of the rnc. jason johnson, msnbc contribute our and amy stoddard, associate editor and columnist for real clear politics. let me start with you, chairman steele. this mike flynn fantasy that he was some rogue actor, some guy who lied but didn't have to does not compute. glen kessler from the post tweeted it's worth keeping in mind that flynn served in the military for 33 years a

i think some may think they should be no russian athletes there, a complete ban. the ioc has not done that, they've gone down a different path saying they will be able to compete but as neutrals. we had several neutral athletes competing at the world athletics championships in london this summer. there is perhaps the threat that vladimir putin who has had a close relationship with thomas back, make all neutral athletes not to ta ke back, make all neutral athletes not to take part at all. ian mccall for a boycott of all russians on of this mike bryan on those who may have been under the old regime of institutionalised doping. we may be going back to the days of 1980 and 1984 of course we had boycotts at the summer olympics in moscow and in los angeles by america and then the soviet union as was. the irony is that we could be seeing a return to those days, russia came back into the fold in 1988 but of course it is another south green games this time and they may decide not to compete at all given the restrictions being placed upon them. they could see that as a loss

planes intercepted russian planes putin's envoy also for syria that they called on the u.s. to leave the country are we going to see more tension between those two powers. in syria when it comes to syria face well more attention is likely we were on the bring or than other round of tension several months ago or not not not even several months ago just about one and a half months ago when there was intensive fighting in their own sword but the problem was not about darrow's or it was about the oil field or fields that are situated in to the east of there us or so there is clear competition between the government in damascus and the syrian democratic forces which are mostly made of so where does that leave the prospects for peace in syria in two thousand and eighteen then well the process well there we have very contradiction contradicting trounce on the one hand we still hope to have a new round of negotiations leading us to geneva and probably a peace agreement because we have with russia at least she used some understanding with the saudis we have an understanding with the

and russian president vladimir putin of course. that tied so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were no more americans to go this especially with a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that their special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. the panama chronicles. her. life. previously on the great american pilgrimage specific to texas please don't think oh everything's going to be fine there are people in need tell me about deshon charity when the storm hit i decided to focus funds to the hurricane relief be prepared what you're about to see. hey everybody i'm steve involved in the test hollywood guy usual suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v. enthusiastic uncle steve to me is a good trade to be quiet because this is my buddy max famous financial guru and we'll she's a little bit different i'm out of room one can i know that there were no windows up last but not

bank with close ties to russian intelligence. when it came time for the bank to staff up the office in moscow, one of the people they installed was andre costen's son also handedly named andre costen. soon as docdocumented, the spect turned on. billions of dollars in elicit russian money started getting flowing through the office and spirited out of russia through the office and this multi billion-dollar criminal scheme they were operating. the bank ran that keep using the offices in the west, as well. but that whole thing happened, they did that because they could thanks apparently to their connections to the russian government and intelligence services close to putin. they did it because they could. the bank did it because they got paid, right? they got a cut. you're moving multiple billions of elicit dollars? yeah, you're taking a cut. that moscow office of deutche bank started clearing profits of a half billion to a billion dollars a year in profit. that one office. thanks in large part to that very friendly relationship link

and the russians have the russian military has responded with concern that this is just a pretext to leave u.s. forces on the ground in syria even after the operation even after the victory over i saw it will be really interesting to see how all of this unfolds especially. he with the u.s. state secretary still is in the meeting of the russian top diplomat sergey lavrov. to discuss the situation in syria where now joined to live by daniel pipes founder and president of middle east forum thanks for being with us here on our team international. is so interesting situation here trump says that it was the u.s. led coalition which toppled isis but at the same time the pentagon says that they will keep the troops in syria as long as they need so what is the point of that if isis is no longer a force in syria. while there are many problems in syria not just isis let's assume for the moment that isis is finished just to give a little more mopping up but there are still so many problems in the country somebody's wife still things. i think it's wise to keep some presence there. you bring up a

i feel bad for the russians and my wife is russian and my staff is russian and they are some of the best people on earth but they been terribly mistreated by these very vicious criminals that are occupying their country. >> host: can russia help us with regard to north korea? >> guest: i believe that china is the key to north korea, not russia.th plus a and vitamin always tries to insert themselves into the international situation to become a spoiler. he could cause harm to our situation in north korea and i wouldn't be surprised if some of the nasty stuff coming out of north korea as brush and fingerprints on it. i think at the end of the day china is the key to north korea not russia. >> host: i want to put on the screen a photograph from the 1980s. president reagan in moscow, red square, shaking the hand of a young russian boy and find him is vladimir putin. my question, bill potter, is how does someone who worked for the kgb in the 80s become the russian leader and such a dominant leader in this country? >> guest: it was kind of anes accident. when boris yeltsin was the president of

after president obama announced new sanctions on the russians last december, the russian ambassador to the united states contacted flynn. according to the charges, flynn called a senior official at the presidential transition team. nbc news is reporting it was k.t. mcfarlane, a senior official in the trump transition, to discuss what, if anything, to communicate to the russian ambassador to the u.s. sanctions. they discussed the members of the presidential transition team at mar-a-lago did not want russia to escalate the situation. flynn relayed that message. in a separate instance flynn contacted the russian ambassador about a pending vote in the u.n. general assembly regarding israel. according to the charges, "a very senior member of the presidential transition team directed flynn to contact officials from foreign governments, including russia, to learn where each government stood on the resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution." nbc news reported today that the very senior official was jared kushner, the president's son-in-law. in a s

russian athletes and the olympic committee were the only ones to be banned. no official of the russian ministry of sport will be a credit it for the olympic winter games two thousand and eighteen. the minister of sport restore vitali would go and then deputy minister yuri not go nick will be excluded from any parties in any party see patients in all future olympic games since this decision was made on december fifth we tally macos position as the head of russia's football union has been under scrutiny and he has faced calls to resign on monday he ceded to the pressure at least for the time being. i addressed the russian football union's executive board regarding the temporary impossibility to perform my duties during the period of my court proceedings in order to let the union work normally i have asked to be relieved of my duties for up to six months if i can return earlier than i will do so i have not resigned i have a mandate until twenty twenty so we must go is still the chief of russia's well a couple guys in committee but he has not ruled out vacating t

in which the russian state security forces the russian olympic committee the russian sports ministry collaborated to create a system there which no russian athlete could give up a a tainted sample mystically they would have clean urine stored in advance and it would be swapped with the tainted urine so that when the tests were undertaken russian athletes would always pass with flying colors this evidence was out and has been out for at least two years since the mclaren report last year the i.o.c. wanted to take another closer look at that evidence that evidence has held up and here we are emily what about reaction from russia there are reports that moscow plans to appeal this ban right. well the kremlin spokesman his cough said that they would be waiting for a decision he even said that they might wait for that decision in writing so they're kind of buying time there hasn't been an official reaction yet but the school of said earlier today that they would protect athletes and there has been some indication that they might appeal a decision in in the courts but it's not clear now with

was paid $40,000, which he accepted from the russian government. i was not paid a penny and declined sponsorship for my transportation, room, and board. i went there without any conflicts of interest or encumbrances. it is like nothing happened at that dinner. askedhe senate has just dr. jill stein, the 2016 green party presidential candidate, for documents as part of its probe of russian interference in that 2016 election. among the actions that attention drew their was stein's attendance at a 2015 dinner in moscow sponsored by russian state-run television network rt, where she sat at a table with russian president vladimir putin. also there, another american, general michael flynn. we'll get response from stein , who says she's the focus of a new mccarthyism. of reipt tayl. the "the ra of re taylor amy: we look at what happened in 1944 with a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper was gave rate by six white teens in alabama. she refused to be silenced. she spoke up with the help of the naacp's chief rape investigator, none other than rosa park

government. >> well, it seems like the russian government or people affiliated with the russian government had been reaching out through 2016 either to the trump campaign directly or his surrogates. and then trump won. and it was unexpected for americans, and it was certainly unexpected for russians, who did not hospital him to win. nobody expected to take him seriously. the russians aren't stupid. they got this guy they were kind of gunning for, but tongue-in-cheek. he has been saying all this great stuff about vladimir putin and the russians. why not ask him for some great stuff. why not ask him to repeal the sanctions. it would be stupid not. to the question is was the trump administration, the incoming trump administration stupid enough to promise to deliver on these things? i think those are two separate pieces. >> right. and natasha, that's why the flynn story to me just resonates so profoundly here is that the thing at the center of it, which is a conversation about kislyak, he then lies to fbi investigators about that it seems to be kind of attempt to sweep under the rug, the white

russian athletes taking. pics remains controversial. and more important what awaits them after they get. back to our international dependence polities in the spanish region of catalonia secured a majority they snap election dealt a pretty serious blow to the central government in madrid they hope to diffuse the independence crisis having that now it was a referendum local leaders allow the deposed president is hailing another victory. i want to congratulate the catalan people because they have sent a message to the world the catalan republic has beaten the monarchy and article one fifty five the spanish they has been beaten. so i think right when we started. the next morning that many of these more men. i let's take a look now at the results reflected in the parliament the pro independence parties have seventy of one hundred thirty five seats the pro unionist citizens party they did win the election by a small margin of terms in terms of vote share it's not enough though to form a coalition capable of actually taking power now the resul

this is to allow the russian football federation to work normally. i ask for my full powers to be temporarily suspended for six months. i have not resigned and my mandate will be active until 2020. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news... peru's president has granted a medical pardon to jailed former president alberto fujimori, leading to mixed reactions from peruvians. his son kenji posted a video on twitter showing the former president's reaction to the news. fujimori was serving a 25—year sentence for human rights abuses, corruption and the sanctioning of death squads. a man has rammed his car into the headquarters of germany's social democratic party in berlin. police say the 58—year—old was intending to kill himself. he had gas cartridges in the car and cans of petrol. the man was injured and taken to hospital. authorities in the philippines have ordered a criminal investigation into a shopping mall fire in the southern city of davao. at least 37 people died. deadly blazes occur regularly in the philippines, partic

the russian elsley because we allow. the clean russian fleets. to. participate. and. to show. there are clean athletes in russia and in this way. we think that these. clean russian athletes can be more about building a bridge into the future of clean for cleaner sport. erecting a new wall. between russia and the olympic. well. as usual i will ask my question seen in french so right. now. what do. you want. me to get. me ask you when you pick do you. direct responsibility of the russian government in these. decision by the i.o.c. executive board has been taken by consensus. decision by the. convention. regarding responsibility. that has to be.

and meddling, or maybe russian collusion. i think there are a lot of people who are going to assume that because the former national security advisor has no pleaded guilty that some of this has been substantiated. has it? >> obviously not, and that is another issue with the media. they wanted to keep the narrative going as long as they can. so there is still gossip and speculation. the fact of the matter is -- i will say this now, this is not going to touch the president at all. if there is any kind of deal making, we only have two other men indicted. we don't even know where that is related to. if so, if the mandate wasn't to go after anything that may come up in this process, is very much roberts noted, is that it could be something from the outside. but when you have something like this. it could just be a lot of people seem to have a faith in the fbi that they actually know what they are doing, we need to see if that is the case yet. but this may be the only actual thing that they have on him appeared remember, he was in

meet people from your government from the russian government from the russian parliament and also perhaps to have critical remarks against one another but also to get a better understanding russia is not our enemy i believe that russia is an ally and we should invest in better relations so the media has been calling it a debt donald trump i don't know if you like that comparison or not what do you make of it the failure of many things in common with american president. as i have on some aspects i have respect for mr rahman all the aspects i don't have respect for what he does i still believe that if i would have been in america which i'm not i would have rather i would also have voted for mr trump and not for mrs clinton but hey i'm not an american i'm a dutchman and i'm responsible for the by the seat of my country no today in opposition and so i'm not to be compared with what i believe and what the strength is of both mr trump but also missed the putin is that they all believe that the interest of down own country goes first mr putin goes for russia first for the first interest of the r

you mentioned russian team and russia olympic team is in a limbo because russians can't participate in the winter olympics under their own flag they will have to compete as squared of. athletes plus we have the absence of n.h.l. how do you think that. well the fact the whole tournaments that's not something new for the olympics absence of the n.h.l. now they're russian team competing on the natural flag. i think that. there has been so much talk already but the by the time the. tribes i think we all forget that i hopefully we can focus in the tournament on the games and i know that you know it's been a tough year for hockey. and it still is not. coming and that the russian. people tough time for the serious works you know on. their hockey but i think that both with time will heal on the we have. no less than sixty days to go for this going to be where you know we can really focus in the game and say so you're saying the ant absence of n.h.l. this strange situation with russian hockey players competing under national flag is not going to affect the whole i can ask the way in your opinio

no russian flag will fly at the twenty eighteen pyongyang winter olympics but there will be russian athletes. the russian national anthem will play out during official ceremonies but fans will probably chant and acappella rendition you can take the athletes out of the country but can you take the country out of the athletes. welcome back this week the russian military and now syria has been completely liberated from islamic states but it will though no particular area is now held by the jihadists there are still small pockets of resistance the russian operation in syria began in september twenty fifth day when i still held more territory in the country than any other function and u.s. led coalition has also been involved in the northeastern part of the country or the area west of the euphrates river now liberated isos self-proclaimed caliphate effectively no longer exists on saturday the iraqi government also declared it fully rid the country of islamic state well during the russian operation in syria artie's correspondents were given direct access to the conflict. this is the airbase in lov

in which the russian state security forces, the russian sports ministry collaborated for a system in which no russian athlete could give up a tainted sample. basically they would have clean urine stored in advance and it would be swapped with the tainted urine, so that when the tests were undertaken, russian athletes would always pass with flying colors. this evidence was out and has been out for at least a year. the ioc wanted to take another closer look at the evidence. the evidence held up, and here we are. brent: emily, what about reaction from russia? there are reports that moscow plans to appeal this ban, right? emily: well, the kremlin spokesman said they would be waiting for a decision. he even said they might even wait for that decision in writing. they are sort of buying time. there hasn't been an official reaction but they said earlier today they would protect athletes and there has been some indication that they might appeal the decision in the courts. but it is not clear now, with this decision for russian athletes to be able tp compete under a neutral flag, whether they

thousands of russian athletes working and training and dreaming about going to the olympic games and through the decision the i.o.c. has taken there is now an opportunity for that to happen for those individuals. well but those individuals will not be gratified by seeing that country's flag go by hearing that country's national anthem and it is their country that has invested lots of resources into training again they have done nothing wrong and it is not only those athletes but also millions of fans who will be watching the olympics don't you think that they have been penalized unfairly while i think the enforcement of the charter of the olympic charter by the i.o.c. against this its member is a very legitimate and responsible thing to do and the consequence of the rules that they agreed to participate by and and in force in russia as the russian olympic committee the consequence of that has repercussions i think the i.o.c. has created a really good way to demonstrate that doping and cheating at the olympic games won't be tolerated yet they've they've not taken a collective view aga