alexina ball named the outspoken kremlin critic was arrested after making a short appearance of an anti putin rally earlier today the police raided of all news all photos also coming up another day of heavy fighting in syria's alfre and region turkey claims of diplomatic success in its offensive against a u.s. backed kurdish militia. and the sights and sounds of carnival in venice as millions of revelers come out to party among the city's story can now see. their harm and welcome with the show it's good to have you with us. the arteries have detained opposition leader alexina all night is expected to be charged with a public order violation which could mean up to twenty days in jail police arrested evolving after he made a brief appearance at a moscow protest one of more than one hundred rallies planned across the country now the opposition is calling for a boycott of the march eighteenth presidential election ellen himself has been barred from running against putin due to a previous fraud conviction a conviction he says is politically motivated. aleksei navai violent scuffles as his supporte

i think that is putin's judgment. everything he can do to dismantle the post-world war ii liberal world order including nato and the eu is in their immediate self-interest, they view. richard: let me ask you the same question. if you had to describe an elevator, what do you think of the essence of russian national security strategy and how they would defined success for themselves, what would be the? -- >> russia has 3 principal goals. it is to weaken democracy internally and another is to divide the country's in nato and the eu internally. to deal individually with those nations as opposed with a united front. and to undermine the rules of international order which in moscow's perspective, is slanted in favor of the united states because it promotes other norms of democracy. and other norms in the international sphere, international integrity and sovereignty that russia feels can trend west when it wants to. what russia has done is taken the fight from a was originally just contained to the post-soviet space and take

putin has outlasted them all. he perfected the art of controlling every detail to achieve his own goals. all you really see when you look putin in the eye is exactly what he wants you to see. >> there is an inexplicable and irrational affinity and i think affection on donald trump's part for vladimir putin. >> in every utterance the president went out of his way to praise vladimir putin, to speak highly of him. >> he bragged about what a good, strong leader putin was when confronted by our colleagues. >> he is running his country. at least he is a leader, unlike what we have in this country. >> again, he kills journalists that don't agree with him. >> you and i get to hang out around terrific experts. we get to have them on our broadcasts. you take a guy like malcolm nance, a 35-year veteran of counterterrorism, get him started on vladimir putin. >> he views kgb officers as the new nobility of russia. they are the pinnacle of russian society. he uses them on a daily basis. >> used to be kgb. now fsb. they sound li

alexei navalny the outspoken kremlin critic was arrested after making their short appearance at an anti putin rally earlier today police raided not only an office also coming up. another day of heavy fighting in syria's offer and region turkey claims a diplomatic success and its offensive against a u.s. backed kurdish militia. and swedish founder engg our count brothers died he turned a small scale mail order business into a global foreigner to empire and became one of the richest men in the world. from sarah harman welcome to the program and thanks for joining us. russian authorities have released opposition leader alexina valmiki he was detained earlier in the day after he made a brief appearance at a moscow protest one of dozens of rallies across the country he's expected to be charged with a public order violation which could mean up to twenty days in jail of all me and his supporters are calling for a boycott of a march eighteenth presidential election of only himself has been bored from running due to previous fraud conviction a conviction he says is politically motivated. aleksei navai

we didn't talk about vladimir putin, number six. >> american presidents come and go, but putin has outlasted them all. he's perfected the art of controlling every detail to achieve his own goals. all you really see when you look putin in the eye is exactly what he wants you to see. >> there is an inexplicable, so far, and irrational affinity and i think affection on donald trump's part for vladimir putin. >> in every utterance during the campaign, the president went out of his way to praise vladimir putin, to speak highly of him. >> he bragged about what a good, strong leader putin was when confronted by our colleagues. joe scarborough and mika brzezinski. >> he is running his country. at least he is a leader, unlike what we have in this country. >> again, he kills journalists that don't agree with him. >> well, i think our country does plenty of killing also, joe. >> you and i get to hang out around terrific experts. we get to have them on our broadcasts. you take a guy like malcolm nance, a 35-year veteran of counterterrorism. get him started on vladimir putin. >> he views the fsb and kgb

putin is doing in our elections. it's not isolated, it's broader to compromise democratic institutions in europe and the united states. i went over it with senator corker. he was fully aware of what we've been doing. our priority to get it started. worked with republicans on our committee throughout the year, but we wanted to make sure report could be released in timely way. we believe it's not partisan report. we believe the recommendations we make will be embraced because of the need for national security. this is not partisan report, but this was priority that democrats brought in 2017. >> senator ben cardin, top democrat on the foreign relations committee, thanks for the heads up and being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> i much appreciate it. we'll post a link to the report. worth looking at summary and case studies for individual countries and their game plans for counteracting it. very readable report. stick with us. ♪ ♪ there are two types of people in the world. those who fear the future... and those wh

they're chanting "russia without putin", and "putin is a thief". it happens to be president putin's birthday. the riot police moved in to stop them. st petersburg is vladimir putin's home town and it is clear the authorities are not going to let this anti—government protest spoil the president's birthday party. these protesters are not making a revolution, they're making a point — that government is beholden to the people. it is a faint echo of 1917. after the revolution, lenin moved russia's capital from st petersburg to moscow. it's my next stop. "the spectre of communism is haunting europe", karl marx wrote. well, in this park, the ghost of lenin is haunting me. wherever i look, he's there. lenin is the red star of this show, it is like a freak show of fallen idols. there are an estimated 111,000 statues of this man in the soviet union, that means that wherever you went in the ussr there was probably at least one lenin thinking about you... ...taking care of you... ...orjust watching you. he speaks in russian. close by, there is a lenin muse

there is little doubt that vladimir putin will walk this election. with the help of russian tv which maintains his macho image, portering him asa maintains his macho image, portering him as a cross between action man and father of the nation —— portraying him. and mr putin enjoys far more airtime than any of other candidates. but the kremlin still needs people to come out and vote for needs people to come out and vote foeradimir needs people to come out and vote for vladimir putin. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: the father of the flat—pack, ikea's founder, dies at the age of 91. also on the programme: we'll be live in new york for the grammy awards — the biggest night in the year for the music industry. the shuttle challenger exploded soon after lift—off. there were seven astronauts on board, one of them a woman school teacher. all of them are believed to have been killed. by the evening, tahrir square, the heart of official cairo, was in the hands of the demonstrators. they were using the word "revoluti

and mr putin enjoys far more airtime than any of the other candidates. but the kremlin still needs people to come out and vote for vladimir putin. that is why calls to boycott the elections are making the russian authorities nervous. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. there's new doubt surrounding the security of so—called cryptocurrency exchanges, which handle digital cash systems like bitcoin. one ofjapan‘s biggest exchanges, coincheck, has offered to refund half a billion dollars in currency stolen by hackers on friday. japan is one of the world's most enthusiastic traders in crypto currencies. this report by rhodri davies contains flash photography. as many as 10,000 businesses injapan are said to accept cryptocurrencies. this virtual heist is bound to increase concerns about their security. at the centre of this, tokyo—based coincheck, one of the largest digital currency exchanges injapan. it said on friday it had been hacked, resulting in the loss of $500 million — the biggest ever. translation: there are some troubles in one of our systems

or one miracle opposition parties in russia are hoping for is a victory over putin. in the upcoming elections in march from moscow i'm joined now by vitale's clear off as a political consultant in advisor to the russian presidential candidate running a sub chock good morning to the tali thanks for being with us can you tell us who is sub shock and why has she decided to challenge lattimer putin. she is a new and the most i actually the youngest presidential candidate in in russia's history one of the few female candidates who is trying to challenge put in this upcoming election ok no vladimir putin of course enjoys huge popularity these poor poised for what's looking like a landslide victory at this point what makes you think that russians are ready for a new leader likes any assumption quite frankly i don't think the russians are ready for a new. president i don't think the russians are there yet because the support of like me put in still huge in a country people are still too afraid of change and i believe democracy isn't born out of one election it's a long proce

i think that is putin's judgment. everything he can do to dismantle the post-world war ii liberal world order including nato and the eu is in their immediate self-interest, they view. richard let me ask you the same : question. if you had to describe an elevator, what do you think of the essence of russian national security strategy and how they would defined success for themselves, what would be the? >> russia has 3 principal goals. it is to weaken democracy internally and another is to divide the country's in nato and the eu internally. to deal individually with those nations as opposed with a united front. and to undermine the rules of international order which in moscow's perspective, is slanted in favor of the united states because it promotes other norms of democracy. and other norms in the international sphere, international integrity and sovereignty that russia feels can trend west when it wants to. what russia has done is taken the fight from a was originally just contained to europe and to -- contained to th

putin is trying to do. we've got to defend the united states and europe against foreign funding that erodes democracy. we need to pass legislation to require full disclosure of shell companies, owners and improve transparency of funding political campaigns and advocacy groups. we have bipartisan legislation to do that. let's get that passed so that shell companies -- we know that they're shielding illegal funds. let's make sure that russia's game plan is not funded for shell companies that are located here. we need, number six, u.s. leadership to build global cyber defenses and norms. establish a rapid reaction team to defend allies under attack. mr. president, we should push nato to consider the implications of a cyberattack within the context of article 5 and our ability to defend each other. we should also lead an effort to establish an international treaty on the use of cybertools in peacetime modeled on the international arms control treaties. lastly, we need to hold social media companies accountable.

the exhibition is called super putin thirty artists presenting bloody me a putin various heroic depictions it opened at a moscow gallery on the same day the president announced his bid for reelection it's the kind of post modern political display you quickly get used to in russia one's never quite sure how seriously all this is meant to be taken. the real life ready made putin is expected to comfortably cruise to a fourth term in office this year he's running as an independent candidate even so putin's most publicly vocal critic is being barred from running against him alexina valley has called for nationwide protests in response the. let's come out to the street for yourselves feel rights for your future for the fact that we do not want to lose another six years this action needs to be carefully planned and we will hold and cross the entire country on sunday january twenty eighth less threatening to russia's carefully constructed political order is cassini a sub czech she's the daughter of putin's former political mentor the journalist and t.v. personality comes with the liberal oppositio

and mr putin enjoys far more airtime than any of the other candidates. but the kremlin still needs people to come out and vote for vladimir putin. that is why calls to boycott the elections are making the russian authorities nervous. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. it was very much bruno mars's night that the grammys. let's cross live to new york — where we can speak to the bbc‘s nada tawfik. quite a few political moment up on stage? absolutely. i think in music, a lot of the artists discuss the social issues through their song but we saw the date in performances and the red carpet the #me too looked at. white roses were born in solidarity with victims of sexual abuse. kesha gave a powerful performance, one i think will be talked about by a long time. she was joined by cyndi lauper, julia michaels and other female artists who sang in the chorus as she sang her song, praying. we had a diverse group of artists such as kendrick lamar, opening up the grammys at singing an array of his track from his album, damn. and that was an album that spoke about

and mr putin enjoys far more airtime than any of the other candidates. but the kremlin still needs people to come out and vote for vladimir putin. that is why calls to boycott the elections are making the russian authorities nervous. steve rosenberg, bbc news. more than 100 people are now confirmed dead — and two hundred and thirty injured — from yesterday's bombing in the afghan capital, kabul. the country has been observing a day of national mourning after one of the worst attacks in years. our correspondent secunder kermani, is in kabul, and sent this report the authorities have been working throughout the night and into the morning, to clear up the scene of the explosion. they're not allowing us past this cordon at the moment, but you can still see some of the damage that was caused. the suicide attacker was driving an ambulance packed with explosives. he managed to get past this first checkpoint, but then when he reached a second one, and was apparently questioned, he blew himself up. it's not exactly clear what his target was. a police building

putin is doing. it deals with an overall game plan to try to dominate democratic institutions in europe and in the united states. i did go over this with senator corker. it was our priority to get it started. we worked with the republicans on our committee throughout the year but we wanted to make sure that this report could be released in a timely wait. we believe the recommendations will be embased because of this was the priority that the cats brought in 2017. >> senator ben cardin, top democrat on the foreign relations committee. thank you for being here. i appreciate it. >> it's worth looking at the case studies and we'll post the link tonight. stay with us. >>> okay, this is from page 138 from the fusion gps transskicri that got released yesterday. this is about five hours in. question, it has been widely reported and mr. steele has acknowledged that he created 16 memos before the election, is that accurate? answer, to the best of my knowledge that's accurate. yes, exhibit 3 is a document produ

putin has outlasted them all. he perfected the art of controlling every detail to achieve his own goals. all you really see when you look putin in the eye is exactly what he wants you to see. >> there is an inexplicable and irrational affinity and i think affection on donald trump's part for vladimir putin. >> in every utterance the president went out of his way to praise vladimir putin, to speak highly of him. >> he bragged about what a good, strong leader putin was when confronted by our colleagues. >> he is running his country. at least he is a leader, unlike what we have in this country. >> again, he kills journalists that don't agree with him. >> well, i think our country does plenty of killing also. >> you and i get to hang out around terrific experts. we get to have them on our broadcasts. you take a guy like malcolm nance, a 35-year veteran of counterterrorism, get him started on vice-president. >> he views kgb officers as the new nobility of russia. they are the pinnacle of russian society. he uses them o

of what they say would be a break to presidential elections this march expected to extend president putin script on power now vonnie response from standing. yes i want russia to have an elected government and not a pretty appointed one i'm sick of going to protests but i'll still go as long as i live in ways that the other way russia's isolation itself more and more from the world is making demands but we're not living in a country that can dictate anything. i want to changes within government to be possible because the zon history now has been there for too long. the finnish police raided they had courtis and t.v. studios belonging to alex a no vonnie interrupting a live program saying they were looking for a bomb. police also detained some of no vonnie stuff during the raid. so it's unlikely the wave of protests can stop flooding me approach and being really likes it alex i know vonnie supporters want at least to discourage russians from voting in the hopes of undermining the ballot with a low turnout one hundred fifty w. horace bought me a drunk sorts joins us now from moscow maria dra

i think that is putin's judgment. everything he can do to dismantle the post-world war ii liberal world order including nato and the eu is in their immediate self-interest, they view. richard: let me ask you the same question. if you had to describe an elevator, what do you think of the essence of russian national security strategy and how they would defined success for themselves, what would be the? >> russia has 3 principal goals. it is to weaken democracy internally and another is to divide the country's in nato and the eu internally. to deal individually with those nations as opposed with a united front. and to undermine the rules of international order which in moscow's perspective, is slanted in favor of the united states because it promotes other norms of democracy. and other norms in the international sphere, international integrity and sovereignty that russia feels can trend west when it wants to. transgressresses -- when it wants to. what russia has done is taken the fight from a was originally just containe

the exhibition is called super putin thirty artists presenting vladimir putin various heroic depictions it opened at a moscow gallery home the same day the president announced his bid for reelection it's the kind of post modern political display you quickly get used to in russia one's never quite sure how seriously all this is meant to be taken. the real life ready made putin is expected to comfortably cruise to a fourth term in office this year he's running as an independent candidate even so putin's most publicly vocal critic is being barred from running against him alexina valley has called for nationwide protests in response. let's come out to the street for yourselves feel rights feel future for the fact that we do not want to lose another six years this action needs to be carefully planned and we will hold and cross the entire country on sunday january twenty eighth less threatening to russia's carefully constructed political order is cassini a subject she's the daughter of putin's former political mentor the journalist and t.v. personality comes with the liberal opposition creden

putin is also a very strong negotiator. even writing,for, if he had a possibility to select negotiators, stalin would be on his team. stalin was doing his homework. stalin was in control of details. so an externally strong .egotiator putin in many ways is the closest we can get in soviet to appear in all of those accounts. then he redefined eastern europe is identified as another area full of contention and a source of worsening relations between the two countries. the parallel is interesting in 1945, stalin was returning to eastern europe. leninone were the days of where he was trying to organize the world by this new revolutionary principle. he goes back to the old imperial visions and fears of influence and becomes an important influence in his diplomatic toolbox. so russia is really in eastern europe for the first time in 1914-1915, trying to reestablish itself. is again a return. that was not exactly no man's land but not under the russian control for a period of time, you see russia returning there. and the united sta

here is more of what navalny said. >> translator: putin regime is built on corruption and putin himself is the most corrupt. his family is directly involved in corruption. according to official data, over 20% of our population lives below the poverty line and why are we so poor? because they steal so much. >> regardless of the popularity of that issue and you have been prevented from standing in these fourth coming preside forthcoming presidential elections, do you think vladimir putin is genuinely concerned or fearful of you as a political opponent? >> translator: he is scared of all real competition. we see in these locations that he only allowed those to run who who do not resist. when he saw we are actually fighting for people's votes, they got scared. all these 86%, 70% ratings, all of that the sociologists and political analysts love to talk about, they exist in only one scenario, when putin places the candidates he controls. >> the issue of polling numbers is important because as you say vladimir putin is polling more than 80% popularity in this country if you believe the opinion

putin's hands. they are unfairly, dishonestly clouding a crucial investigation into russia's interference in our elections, a matter of most serious concern for every american. it's abhorrent. it must stop. i yield the floor.

putin said they would wait. if actual sanctions are applied against any of the people on this list, that's when you could see some form of retaliation. at the moment, it is just a list of names. there's been no action taken by the u.s., so there's nothing to respond to. mark: they did comment that the trump administration was using the measure to try to influence the election on march 18. how is the campaign going, henry? henry: it is virtually nonexistent. vladimir putin is assured reelection. there's no real competition. his spokesman even said so the other day. really, there's a total absence of any campaign. mark: thank you for joining us, henry meyer joining us from moscow today. vonnie: time to check in on the first word news. arabia says it has wrapped up its review of case files in the anticorruption crackdown. dozens of business executives and government officials -- everyone the government agreed to settle with has been released. 65 are still being held. the estimate value of the settlement is more tha

of the march eighteenth presidential election that on himself has been barred from running against putin due to a previous flawed conviction a conviction of only says it was politically motivated. alexei no vonnie violence goes. as his supporters try in vain to pull him free from police who arrest the opposition leader and press them flooding me a push and smoke a prominent rival. huddled into a bus and taken away from protests that he told. the gazans but it did suffer a thousand turns out in most polls one of dozens of releases been held across russia authorities say demonstrations are illegal to protest just want to boycott of what they say would be a break to presidential elections this march expected to extend president putin script on power now vonnie a spot from standing. yet i want russia to have an elected government and not a pretty appointed one i'm sick of going to protests but i'll still go as long as i live in ways i dearly russia's isolating itself more and more from the world and is making demands but we're not living in a country that can dictate anything. i want to chan

i think there was a personal motive on the part of putin. hillary clinton had publicly spoken for the rights of people demonstrating in moscow in 2011. i happened to be there at the time. it was unprecedented in the putin era, for large numbers, hundreds of thousands of people to get out on the streets of moscow. they carried white ribbons and said very unkind things about vladimir putin. he took that very personally, and she -- i don't think for her it was much of an american politician thing to say, we support democracy, we support people demonstrating for democracy, but he took that to heart. and there were other things, certainly from putin's point of view, that were american operations against russia. i don't think we would see them that way. for example, one would be the outing of doping in sports. for us to of hard to, see it that way, but i think for putin, it was an attack on russia with a large american component. and another thing we would not have seen in this way, the panama papers, which exposed this old buddy of putin's who, w

and russian president vladimir putin of pools. oh my god i've had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were no merik.

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few here if any really think they'll be able to prevent what you may putin winning another landslide election victory dances darkness fell on a cold moscow they kept their chance of protest ringing into the gloom to reach alan's al-jazeera moscow. well for more on this we're joined in the studio by live to give or again she's a russian unlist that i.h.s. market a financial think tank thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera i mean i like sort of on the obviously knew that he was going to be arrested as soon as he showed up at the protests he also knows he's not running in the actual election what impact do you think any of this is going to have on the election on march in march which i think the results the results of which it seemed almost a given well is he set and his supporters know that they're not going to make much difference what they're trying to do its oil this elections for putin they want to make sure that it's not smooth sailing that's why the main message is to avoid court this election's because they saying that. regard this your participation protein will b

and russian president vladimir putin of course. oh my god i've had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were no one americans and specially 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. of the panama chronicles. welcome back to cross like we're all things considered i'm peter letterman you were discussing trump and the media. ok let me go back to west palm beach where it's probably the warmest on this program gina you know i consider myself a midwesterner i grew up in my childhood in colorado so i know that the heartland you know and you know we can talk about all of the intricacies of the campaign who did a thing who did it did it right who did it wrong how much money was paid but you know it was really the deplorable statement and i think that really brought home to the voters you know who they are the voters in this in the country and where they stan

the exhibition is called super putin thirty artists presenting vladimir putin various heroic depictions it opened at a moscow gallery home the same day the president announced his bid for reelection it's the kind of post modern political display you quickly get used to in russia one's never quite sure how seriously all this is meant to be taken from. the real life readymade putin is expected to comfortably cruise to a fourth term in office this year he's running as an independent candidate even so putin's most publicly vocal critic is being barred from running against him alexina valley has called for nationwide protests in response the. let's come out to the street for yourselves feel rights for your future for the fact that we do not want to lose another six years this action needs to be carefully planned and we will hold and cross the entire country on sunday january twenty eighth less threatening to russia's carefully constructed political order is cassini a sub check she's the daughter of putin's former political mentor the journalist and t.v. personality comes with a liberal oppos

the exhibition is called super putin thirty artists presenting vladimir putin various heroic depictions it opened at a moscow gallery on the same day the president announced his bid for reelection it's the kind of post modern political display you quickly get used to in russia one's never quite sure how seriously all this is meant to be taken. the real life ready made putin is expected to comfortably cruise to a fourth term in office this year he's running as an independent candidate even so putin's most publicly vocal critic is being barred from running against him alexina valley has called for nationwide protests in response to the. let's come out to the street for yourselves feel rights for your future for the fact that we do not want to lose another six years this action needs to be carefully planned and we will hold and cross the entire country on sunday january twenty eighth less threatening to russia's carefully constructed political order is cassini a sub check she's the daughter of putin's former political mentor the journalist and t.v. personality comes with the liberal opposi

the exhibition is called super putin thirty artists presenting bloody mir putin various heroic depictions it opened at a moscow gallery home the same day the president announced his bid for reelection it's the kind of post modern political display you quickly get used to in russia one's never quite sure how seriously all this is meant to be taken for. the real life ready made putin is expected to comfortably cruise to a fourth term in office this year he's running as an independent candidate even so putin is most publicly vocal critic is being barred from running against him alexina valley has called for nationwide protests in response to the writer. let's come out to the street for yourselves feel rights for your future for the fact that we do not want to lose another six years this action needs to be carefully planned and we will hold in cross the entire country on sunday january twenty eighth less threatening to russia's carefully constructed political order is kissing your sub check she's the daughter of putin's former political mentor the journalist and t.v. personality comes with a

i think there was a personal motive on the part of putin. hillary clinton had publicly spoken for the rights of people demonstrating in moscow in 2011. it was unprecedented in the putin area for large numbers of people to get on the streets of moscow. they carried white ribbons and said very unkind things about vladimir putin. he took that very personally, and she -- i don't think for her it was much of an american politician thing to say, we support democracy, we support people demonstrating for democracy, but he took that part. ,nd there were other things certainly from putin's point of view, that were american operations against russia. i don't think we were seen that way. i think for putin, it was an attack on russia with a large american component. we would not have seen in this way, the panama papers, which exposed this old buddy of putin's who, it turned out, had $2 billion hiding away in offshore accounts. for cellonot normal us. cellists. >> it turns out classical music was lucrative in russia. he saw that as a cia operation against

he's very closely linked to vladimir putin and controls the biggest oil and gas company in the world. so simpson says i didn't know rybolovlev was accused of essentially destroying an entire city environmentally with his mining operations. he was criminally accused and managed to get out of and it walk out of russia with billions of dollars with the apparent assistance of sechin. we've seen a number of ohave le. they like to have an image of the someone with kremlin but when you look closely, they are not. he was going to moscow all the time and his legal problems went away and questions whether he did get ripped off in the art deals or whether he just said he got ripped off as a way of accounting for the money that's missing. so i'm now of the view that this florida transaction with donald trump is suspicious. congresswom congresswoman, the additional 50 plus million dollars that donald trump received was for what purpose? simpson, i don't know. i mean, you mean the profit from that? she says right. simpson says well, trump just claimed it was one of his great business deals. he just

are twenty two turn up for president putin. today. this is the w. news life for the firing back u.s. president donald trump appears to assume his former chief strategist for libel and slander steve bannon's explosive accusations in a controversial tell all book on the trump white house call a meeting with a russian lawyer treasonous the president.

i think there was a personal motive on the part of putin. hillary clinton had publicly spoken for the rights of people demonstrating in moscow in 2011. it was unprecedented in the putin area for large numbers of people to get on the streets of moscow. they carried white ribbons and said very unkind things about vladimir putin. he took that very personally, and she -- i don't think for her it was much of an american politician thing to say, we support democracy, we support people demonstrating for democracy, but he took that part. and there were other things, certainly from putin's point of view, that were american operations against russia. i don't think we were seen that way. i think for putin, it was an attack on russia with a large american component. another thing we would not have seen in this way, the panama papers, which exposed this old buddy of putin's who, it turned out, had $2 billion hiding away in offshore accounts. >> that's not normal for cellists. >> it turns out classical music is extremely lucrative in russia. he incorrectl

peter. >> president putin. >> tucker: vladamir putin. how dare you use those words. let's roll tape. >> vladamir putin has taken his shirt off again. why did you do this, mr. vlad. >> president putin made his way to the lake in fur coat and boots and stripped down to his bathing trunks. >> tucker: did you know that? >> i did. the ambassador also did that as well. half point situation? >> tucker: i'd love to. >> i've both practicing. >> the nintendo thing. >> tucker: a news host just released a folk rock ballot inspired by a women's march. which cable host was it? peter. >> morning joe scarborough. >> tucker: are you sure? >> i've never seen the show. >> tucker: i think it's brian for the record. we'll find out on the tape. >> it's like when your boss comes in wearing an ugly shirt. don't want to be the one telling him it sucks. a better example when your most pompous talent, joe scarborough, think he's a pop star. ♪ you may get a chance to stand ♪ >> he's ten times work than nickel back. >> tucker: al sharpton cut an album. little known fact. not bad. researchers

what's the response to these developments from putin himself? >> reporter: there may be some democr democratic anger over the president not imposing more sanctions but some anger over here as well. president putin saying it certainly was not a friendly act and exacerbates the u.s./russian relationship that is already at the low point, that kremlin list of oligarches and political figures close to the kremlin, containing 210 names, much more generallyized, the kind of list that was anticipated, that was meant to target those directly in the close circle of vladimir putin. the other thing the kem lynn says -- i think they're breathing a sigh of relief, that sanctions have not been ratcheted up on this occasion. look, this is just a list. we're not going to respond unless there is any kind of enforcement of the list, whether sanctions are actually imposed on any of these individuals and, for the moment it seems, the trump administration is not going to do that. so, as i say, some relief here in the russian camp. >> i'm sure there is. matthew, thank

our cameras showing how putin's forces crack down on protesters. here's dan harris. >> reporter: in dramatic video tonight, you can see opposition leader alexei navalny arrested on the streets of moscow while taking part in an anti-putin rally. hours earlier, police raided his group's offices, interrupting a newscast and arresting one of the anchors. alexei navalny has been called "the man vladimir putin fears most." he's been banned from running in the upcoming presidential election, after having spent years leading anti-kremlin rallies during which he has been publicly beaten and even once nearly blinded when someone sprayed green liquid in his face. we saw firsthand in october how police in russia handle protesters. wading into the crowd, and apparently even sending in provocateurs. is he trying to start a fight? >> yes. >> reporter: this kind of thing in america, nobody bats an eye. people protest the government all the time. here, it's a radical act. tonight, navalny, just released, is calling for a boycott of the march 18th presidential elect

of president putin believes the one and only way out of the korean crisis is no matter how hard it may seem the russian leader gave his view while talking to a puddle of russian journalists what does the if was missing it. it seemed like a vicious unbreakable cycle the north launches ballistic missile united states and south korea respond with ever more frequent war games the north launches another ballistic missile or more war games but this cycle is now on pause and these competition between donald trump and kim jong un well vladimir putin says that there's a clear winner. has definitely won this round he's achieved his strategic goal he's got a new clip payload a long range missile that can reach any place that he sees as an enemy now he wants to come the situation he's a world grounded and intelligent politician putin was of course also asked about the upcoming presidential elections in russia he was asked what he thought about the fact that there are so many people that want to run as candidates and he said well good the more the more choice that russians will have to express them

he's very closely linked to vladimir putin and controls the biggest oil and gas company in the world. so simpson says i didn't know rybolovlev was accused of essentially destroying an entire city environmentally with his mining operations. he was criminally accused and managed to get out of and it walk out of russia with billions of dollars with the apparent assistance of sechin. we've seen a number have left. they like to have an image of the someone with kremlin but when you look closely, they are not. he was going to moscow all the time and his legal problems went away and questions whether he did get ripped off in the art deals or whether he just said he got ripped off as a way of accounting for the money that's missing. so i'm now of the view that this florida transaction with donald trump is suspicious. congresswoman, the additional 50 plus million dollars that donald trump received was for what purpose? simpson, i don't know. i mean, you mean the profit from that? she says right. simpson says well, trump just claimed it was one of his great business deals. he just claimed he ta

the exhibition is called super putin thirty artists presenting vladimir putin various heroic depictions it opened at a moscow gallery hama same day the president announced his bid for reelection it's the kind of post modern political display you quickly get used to in russia one's never quite sure how seriously all this is meant to be taken from. the real life ready made putin is expected to comfortably cruise to a fourth term in office this year he's running as an independent candidate even so putin is most publicly vocal critic is being barred from running against him alexina valley has called for nationwide protests in response to the writer. let's come out to the street for yourselves feel rights for your future for the fact that we do not want to lose another six years this action needs to be carefully planned and we will hold in cross the entire country on sunday january twenty eighth less threatening to russia's carefully constructed political order is sub check she's the daughter of putin's former political mentor the journalist and t.v. personality comes with the liberal opposi

our cameras showing how putin's forces crack down on protesters. here's dan harris. >> reporter: in dramatic video tonight, you can see opposition leader alexei navalny arrested on the streets of moscow while taking part in an anti-putin rally. hours earlier, police raided his group's offices, interrupting a newscast and arresting one of the anchors. alexei navalny has been called "the man vladimir putin fears most." he's been banned from running in the upcoming presidential election, after having spent years leading anti-kremlin rallies during which he has been publicly beaten and even once nearly blinded when someone sprayed green liquid in his face. we saw firsthand in october how police in russia handle protesters. wading into the crowd, and apparently even sending in provocateurs. is he trying to start a fight? >> yes. >> reporter: this kind of thing in america, nobody bats an eye. people protest the government all the time. here, it's a radical act. tonight, navalni, just released, is calling for a boycott of the march 18th presidential elect

as for north korea, we need this with putin why. because he is one of the two main players in the situation to have an embargo on north korea and push them to be involved with our roles. and today we need he a russia that is much more committed to the negotiation. and at the end, for the negotiation, we have this with prime minister merkel. i want us to progress into the direction. so you have to discuss with russia. i do respect vladimir putin as a partner but i refuse to accept any interference because i don't interfere in russian elections. >> i wanted to end the discussion under the global microscope. i wanted to talk about his marriage to bridget. i discussed it powers his every endeavour. >> i would like to say to you, love, what does that mean to you some the world is obsessed right now with your marriage and your relationship with your wife. >> she is my life. i do believe you don't build something great and you don't behave properly if you're not balanced and have a strong couple. i've been with my wife for decades now. and

a putin spokesman said this is basically a list of enemies to america. if anything, this will be a boom to the russian government. because they wanted to get oligarchs who had money in the west, to get all of them to move their money back to russia but everybody is so spooked about this now, that the kremlin is prepared to issue a $3 billion government bond with special discounted terms for oligarchs, so they can buy the bond and thus move their cap pal back onshore so the kremlin that nothing to worry from this as things currently stand. if further action is taken, that's a different matter. >> max, thank you very much for joining us >>> still ahead on "worldwide exchange," much more on the early market selloff dow futures pointing to 143-point decline. >>> welcome back to "worldwide exchange." futures pointing markedly lower. 150 points almost on the dow the nasdaq down 35 the s&p down 10. so we're looking at over half a percent of declines at the open. we were down 0.6%, 0.7% yesterday. all 11 of the s&p sectors were lower. of course we're still sharp

it is vladimir putin who dominates air time on russian tv. he is the face you see most of. and only those candidates who don't pose a risk to vladimir putin's power have been allowed to take part in this election. more than 100 people are now confirmed dead — and 230 injured — in yesterday's bomb attack in the afghan capital, kabul. it's the worst attack there for several months. our correspondent, secunder kermani, is in kabul. the authorities have been working throughout the night and into the morning, to clear up the scene of the explosion. they're not allowing us past this cordon at the moment, but you can still see some of the damage that was caused. the suicide attacker was driving an ambulance packed with explosives. he managed to get past this first checkpoint, but then when he reached a second one, and was apparently questioned, he blew himself up. it's not exactly clear what his target was. a police building is right opposite the scene of the blast. the indian embassy is also just slightly further up the road. but, as is often the case, it seems that a large n

and russian president vladimir putin of pools. that had 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 merit of this specially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. the panama chronicles. this is an amazing story because now we're seeing real geo political impact of bitcoin on a g. twenty country g seven countries japan actually the spending power of the culture the rise of big going in the millions of people have been buying it in japan multi billion dollars that they have appreciated in value is causing a genuine effect in their economy and this is going to be the year twenty eighteen or a big point cryptocurrency how does geo political influence. welcome back to cross like we're all things considered i'm peter letterman you were discussing trump and the media. ok let me go back to west palm beach where it's probably the warmest on this pro